KLUGKIST, Peter 1862-1947

KLUGKIST, BERGHAUS, KAUFMAN

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 11/30/2019 at 12:58:46

Early Day Resident Wellsburg Passed Away At Indiana Home

Word was received by H. H. Doyen that his uncle Peter Klugkist, former resident of Wellsburg, passed away at his home at Cedar Lake, Indiana, February 10, 1947. He had been in failing health for the past year or more.

Mr. Klugkist was born in Weener, Ostfriesland, Germany on April 10, 1862. When a young man he came to America and finally settled in Wellsburg, Iowa, where he operated a general store.

On January 2, 1888 he was married to Hilke Berghaus. To this union three daughters were born. Following the death of his wife in May 1900, Mr. Klugkist sold his business and with his daughters moved to Lennox, South Dakota, later returning to Wellsburg again.

In May 1909 Mr. H. B. Koolman and Mr. Klugkist opened a general store in Titonka, Iowa, Mr. Koolman selling his interest in the business the following year to T. D. Sietsema.

In January 1915, Mr. Klugkist married Mrs. Emma Kaufman of Chicago, Illinois. Several years later he sold his interest in the business to C. W. Tuttle and retired to Cedar Lake, Indiana, where he lived the remaining years of his life.

He leaves to mourn his departure his widow; three daughters, Mrs. T. D. Sietsema, Titonka, Iowa, Mrs. C. W. Tuttle, Long Beach, California, and Mrs. W. H. Seifert, East Chicago, Indiana; one granddaughter, four grandsons, one great-granddaughter; one stepdaughter, Mrs. A. H. Bacon, Munster, Indiana; one stepson, Wm. H. Kaufman, Hammond, Indiana; and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held in Crown Point, Indiana, with interment in Maplewood Cemetery.

In November, 1946, John Klugkist, brother of Mr. Klugkist, passed away at his home in Lennox, So. Dakota. John Klugkist also lived in Wellsburg a number of years.

--Wellsburg Herald (Wellsburg, Iowa), 27 February 1947, pg 1