Ellen Doyle Scholtes 1894-1975

SCHOLTES, DOYLE, CAREY, LYNCH, BAGAN

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 7/27/2011 at 20:41:54

Mrs. Scholtes
Estherville – Funeral services for Mrs. Matt (Ellen) Scholtes, 80, Estherville, will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church with the Rev. A. O. Grendler officiating and burial in the church cemetery. A rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. tonight at Fuhrman Funeral Home. Mrs. Scholtes died Saturday in an Anaheim Calif. hospital.

Mrs. Scholtes was born Aug. 14, 1894 to Michael and Anna Doyle in Albert Lea, Minn. Her father died when she was at the age of two and she went to live with Mr. and Mrs. John Carey, Chester. She received her education in Chester and was married to Matthias (Matt) Scholtes July 2, 1924 at Chester. They moved to Estherville where he was a railroad engineer for the Rock Island railroad until his retirement in 1949. He died Sept. 6, 1974.

Survivors include one son, Gerald, Northridge, Calif.; Mrs. Margaret Lynch, Anaheim, Calif.; and Mary Scholtes, Oakland, Calif.; five grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Kate Bagan, Albert Lea, Minn.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, one sister and three brothers.

Friends may call at the Fuhrman Funeral Home anytime. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, June 3, 1975)