Mary Senn Runge 1894-1989

RUNGE, SENN, RHOADS, JANSSEN, WENNER, HOFFMAN, PERKINS, PERLOWSKI

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 2/10/2012 at 00:47:24

Mary Runge
Estherville – Memorial services for Mary Runge, 95, will be held Saturday, October 28 at 2 p.m. at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home with Pastor Paul Wiegman officiating. There will be no visitation prior to service. She died Saturday, Oct. 21, 1989 at Holy Family Hospital.

She was born February 13, 1894 at White, S.D., the daughter of Joseph and Emma (Rhoads) Senn, and attended rural White country school. On Oct. 27, 1924 she married August (Duke) Runge at Marshall, Minn. The couple moved to Estherville following their marriage where she was employed as a waitress many years and also worked for a time at Holy Family Hospital.

Survivors include one daughter Mrs. Marvin (June) Janssen, Dunnell, Minn.; six grandchildren; Kathy Wenner, Minnetonka, Minn.; David Janssen, Dunnell; Gary Janssen, Sherburn, Minn.; Donna Hoffman and Diane Perkins, Estherville and Barb Perlowski, Falls Church, Va.; and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1958, and her parents. (Estherville Spirit, Estherville, IA, October 24, 1989)