Anna M. Stange Lembke Dadt Petersen 1878-1950

PETERSEN, STANGE, PETERSON, STANG, LEMBKE, DADT, HENDRICKSON, OLBERTZ, FRANZKOWIAK, GREENWOLD, ANDERSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 2/3/2012 at 23:06:52

Mrs. George Peterson [Petersen] Dies; Ill Two Years
Mrs. George Peterson, 72, of the Huntington neighborhood died this morning at 8:30 at Holy Family hospital of cancer. She had been suffering from the disease for about two years and had been hospitalized for two weeks. She had been a resident of the Huntington community since 1922.

She was born April 20, 1878, in Germany, and received her education in Europe, coming to the United States at the age of 22. She settled first in Omaha in 1900 and in 1902 was married to Clous Lembke. To the couple was born three sons. In 1906 they moved to Bennington, Neb., where Lembke died in 1910, and she was remarried Jan. 1912 in Odeboldt to George Dadt who died in 1918.

She was married a third time at Schaller in January 1920 to George Peterson and the couple moved to Huntington in 1922 and has farmed near Huntington ever since. She was a member of the Huntington Methodist church.

She is survived by her husband, two sons, Herman and Roy, both of Arthur, and seven step-children whom she mothered: Mrs. John Hendrickson of Mapleton; Mrs. Margaret Olbertz of Sioux City; Mrs. Henry Franzkowiak of Schaller; William Dadt and Mrs. Gertie Greenwold of Ida Grove; Hans Lembke of Early and Mrs. Minnie Anderson, who has been at home caring for her mother for the past three years. She was preceded in death by a son, William Lembke, who died in 1931.

Services have not been arranged as yet. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, August 4, 1950)