KOHLSTEDT, Alvina Maria (Pribbenow) 1869-1944

KOHLSTEDT, PRIBBENOW, HEINOLD, BELL, MCDONALD

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor
Date: 1/7/2011 at 10:44:38

KOHLSTEDT, Alvina Maria

Kohlstedt Rites Are
Conducted In Local
Methodist Church

Succumbed In Mason City
Monday Morning After
Several Weeks' Illness

Funeral services were held in the Methodist church at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon for Mrs. Alvina Kohlstedt, 74, who died at 9:45 Monday morning in the Mercy hospital in Mason City. She had been a patient there for seven weeks, following a heart attack suffered at her home here.

The pastor, the Rev. Robert Davies, officiated at the rites and interment was in Park cemetery. The body lay in state in the Sheckler funeral home until time for the services.

Alvina Maria Pribbenow was born in Mitchell county, Iowa on Sept. 3, 1869, the fourth in a family of 12 children of Edward and Maria Pribbenow. When she was four years of age she moved with her parents to Nora Springs on the old Pribbenow homestead, and it was there that she grew to womanhood.

On March 11, 1891, she was married to John E. Kohlstedt of Rockford. They moved to Nora Springs immediately following their marriage and Mr. Kohlstedt went into the harness business there. One daughter, Elsie Cecila, was born to them.

Mr. Kohlstedt died Aug. 23, 1903; and their daughter died Sept. 23, 1918. Mrs. Kohlstedt was also preceded in death by her parents, four brothers and two sisters.

She joined the Methodist church while she was a young girl, and had been a whole-hearted and active member of that body as long as her health permitted.

Surviving are a granddaughter, Miss Valeria Heinold of Mason City; two sisters, Mrs. Lydia Bell of Lodi, Calif.; and Mrs. J. J. McDonald of Nora Springs; and three brothers, Albert Pribbenow of Jasper, Ala.; Julius Pribbenow and Edward Pribbenow of Nora Springs.

(May 29, 1944)