Rosa Meier, June 17, 1867 - May 4, 1943

PUEGNER, MEIER, FURLONG, SANFORD, NOYES, SOLBRIG

Posted By: Ava Simmons (email)
Date: 2/24/2005 at 19:50:20

Obituary in the Pioneer-Republican of Marengo, Iowa, May 6, 1943:

"RITES TODAY FOR MRS. ROSA MEYER

Amana: Mrs. Rosa Puegner Meyer, 73, died Tuesday morning at her home in High Amana following a lingering illness.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at the community church at High, interment following in the cemetery at that place.

Mrs. Meyer was born July 17, 1869, in Germany and emigrated to America when she was 12 years old coming to the Amana Society to make her home. Her parents were William and Amanda Puegner.

She was united in marriage to William Meyer and became the mother of three children, a daughter, Mrs. James Furlong of Marengo, and two sons who preceded their mother in death.

Among those surviving in addition to her daughter are one brother, Herman Puegner of High; two sisters, Mrs. Mina Solbrig of Davenport and Miss Lydia Puegner of High, and three grandchildren, Mrs. Rosa Sanford of San Diego, Calif., Miss Lillian Furlong of Marengo and Mrs. Jane Noyes of Victor. Her husband and three brothers, Gustav, William and Edmund, are deceased."