Nielsen, Thekla Dora

NIELSEN, FRAHM, KRUSE, POHLMANN, GOTTBURGSEN, MARQUARDT, LINDNER

Posted By: Carol (email)
Date: 3/8/2007 at 10:15:07

PRESTON — Thekla Dora Sela Kruse Nielsen, 97, of Preston, died Friday at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Dorothy and Ralph Marquardt, rural New Auburn, Wis.

Burial will be in Center Grove Cemetery, Goose Lake.

She was born Aug. 20, 1909, to Paul Herman and Minnie Frahm Kruse northeast of Goose Lake. She married Andrew C. Nielsen on May 4, 1930, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Preston. He died in 1991.

She attended schools in Goose Lake and Preston areas.

She took a secretarial class to learn typing and also worked as a hired girl.

She and her husband farmed the Kruse farm until 1942 when they moved west of Preston to another farm. In 1975, she and her husband retired to their home in Preston.

She was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Women of the Church and Ruth Circle.

Survivors include daughters, Katharine (Kenneth) Pohlmann of Huntley, Ill., Minnie (Martin) Gottburgsen of Miles and Dorothy (Ralph) Marquardt of New Auburn; one son, Norman (Barbara) Nielsen of Preston; one daughter-in-law, Joan Nielsen of Preston; 18 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Lorena Lindner of Portland, Ore.

Memorials may be made to St. John’s Lutheran Church, Preston.

She was preceded in death by her husband, two sons, two grandchildren, one great-grandchild, one sister and one brother.

Source: Clinton Herald; Clinton, Iowa
Death date: March 2, 2007