Wessels, Anna Margaret Delfs (1839-1920)

WESSELS, DELFS, JOHNSON, BARKEMA

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 7/25/2015 at 14:30:54

Daily Freeman Journal, Saturday, October 16, 1920

DEATH TAKES OLD RESIDENT OF KAMRAR

Mrs. Margaret Wessels, old Settler, Dies at 81 Years of Age.

Mrs. Margaret Wessels, a pioneer settler of Kamrar, aged eighty-one years, passed away last evening at her home there. Death resulted from ills incident to old age.

No funeral arrangements have yet been made.

Mrs. Margaret Wessels was born in Germany, Feb. 25, 1839, and came to this country with her parents when a child. She leaves three sons and two daughters to mourn her death. They are Herman, John and Peter Wessels, Mrs. Jurin Johnson and Mrs. Timothy Barkema. Mr. Wessels died several years ago.

Mrs. Wessels was well known in and about Kamrar and her death will be mourned by many friends.

[buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery, rural Kamrar]