Minnie M. Skow Wiuff 1889-1961

WIUFF, SKOW, WILSON, WILLSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 2/7/2015 at 23:55:45

Mrs. Wiuff Found Dead At Home
Armstrong – Mrs. Hans (Minnie) Wiuff, 72, was found dead at her home here yesterday afternoon. Death was attributed to a heart attack, believed to have occurred in her sleep about midnight Wednesday [October 18, 1961].

A neighbor boy, about 3 p.m. yesterday could not raise Mrs. Wiuff to give her mail to her. He returned home and told his mother who notified Police chief Harry Hanson, after noticing that the window shades were still pulled from the previous night.

Hansen, after being able to gain entrance to the building through the locked doors, noticed through a bedroom window that Mrs. Wiuff was in bed. He entered the house through a porch window, and found her dead in bed.

Minnie Martha Skow was born Sept. 25, 1889, in Seneca Township in Kossuth County, near Seneca, the daughter of Martin and Kristine Skow, she attended public grade school at Seneca.

On March 29, 1911, she married Hans P. Wiuff at the home of her parents. Her husband and parents preceded her in death.

She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Alma Wilson of Fairmont, nieces and nephews.

Services are to be held Sunday 2 p.m. at the First Methodist Church in Armstrong, with the Rev. Roger Tappmeyer to officiate. Burial will be in Armstrong Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the Slaba Funeral Home in Armstrong from noon tomorrow until time of services Sunday. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, October 20, 1961)