PUEGGEL, Esther L. (1911-2001)

PUEGGEL, DOROW, HOLLATZ, RADLOFF

Posted By: Hancock Co Genealogical Society (email)
Date: 8/8/2014 at 15:35:56

Esther L. Pueggel

GARNER — Esther L. Pueggel, 89, of Garner, died Sunday (Jan. 21, 2001) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City.

The funeral will he held 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Paul Lutheran Church with the Rev. Robert Bronson officiating. Interment will be at St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, northeast of Garner.

Visitation will be held one hour prior to services at the church on Tuesday.

Esther Lydia Pueggel, the daughter of Gustav and Louise (Dorow) Pueggel, was born May 4, 1911, on a farm north of Clear Lake. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church northeast of Garner.

She graduated from Ventura High School in 1929. She attended Waldorf College in Forest City and the Iowa State Teacher's College in Cedar Falls and began teaching in the rural schools of northern Iowa. Esther then moved to St. Louis, Mo., where she attended Concordia College and later taught in the parochial schools in St. Louis, Milwaukee, Wis., and Chaska, Minn.

Esther loved books and spending time in school libraries so she went to work at the Concordia College Library in St. Paul, Minn. She was also a secretary at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in St. Paul. In 1992, she moved to Prairie View Apartments in Garner. She enjoyed traveling, sewing and remembering her nieces and nephews with cards. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church.

She is survived by her two sisters, Dorothy Hollatz and Anna Radloff, both of Garner; a brother, Arnold Pueggel and his wife, Marlys, of Clear Lake; a brother-in-law, LeRoy Hollatz of Garner; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Agnes Hollatz; and two brothers-in-law, Conrad Hollatz and Raymond Radloff.

Cataldo Funeral Home, (641) 923-2841

source: Mason City Globe Gazette, 22 Jan 2001