MRS. FRITZ (Melvina Christina Nelson) LAUER

HANSON, NELSON, LAUER, BASS, THOMPSON, WEST, MONROE, BOESE, PALAS

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 11/8/2002 at 16:02:33

Mrs. Fritz (Melvina Christina Nelson) Lauer

MELVINA LAUER

Funeral services for Melvina Lauer were held Friday, Aug. 3, 1984, 11 a.m. at West Clermont Lutheran Church. The Reverend Kim Peterson officiated. The Schutte Funeral Service, Postville, was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in Gods Acres Cemetery.

Melvina Christina Lauer, daughter of Christ and Matha (Hanson) Nelson, was born March 16, 1909, near Clermont, IA. She died Wednesday, Aug. 1, 1984 at the Good Samaritan Center, West Union, at the age of 75 years.

She was baptized May 9, 1909 at the East Clermont Lutheran Church and confirmed May 18, 1924 at the West Clermont Lutheran Church. She attended the rural schools.

On February 27, 1930, she married Fritz Lauer. To this union two daughters were born. They farmed north of West Union for ??7 years. When they retired they moved to their home in Clermont, where they lived for 17 years. Melvina has been a resident of the Good Samaritan Center, West Union, for the past month.

She is preceded in death by her parents, a grandson Nathan West, three sisters, Helen Bass, Ethel Thompson and Lillian Nelson.

Surviving are her husband, Fritz; two daughters, Lorraine (Mrs. Henry Monroe, [the newspaper is crumbled here and I can't tell if it is Jr. or Sr.]), Castalia, and JoAnn (Mrs. Forrest Monroe), St. Olaf; six grandchildren, Peggy (Mrs. Ronald West), Illinois, Judy (Mrs. Mark Boese), Postville, Kevin and Brian Monroe, both Monona, and Paul and Brent Monroe, St. Olaf; six great grandchildren; a brother, Henry Nelson, Clermont, and two sisters, Bessie Palas, West Union, and Anna Mae Nelson, Clermont.

Melvina was a member of the West Clermont Lutheran Church, the ALCW and the Japan Circle, and the Clermont Senior Citizens Club. She was a former member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Eldorado.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.