Halter, Matilda (Bach) 1898-1979

HALTER, BACK, RETTER, BROWN, ALTEMEIER, ACHTEMEIER, STARNS

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Date: 5/4/2015 at 20:20:14

Services Held For Matilda Halter, 80

Funeral services for Mrs. Leopold (Matilda) Halter, 80, Colonial Manor Nursing Home in Baxter, a resident of Baxter since 1919, were held Monday, Oct. 8 at the Congregational United Church of Christ in Baxter.

The Rev. Gary Hubley, pastor of the church, conducted the services, Burial was in Restland Cemetery in Baxter.

Pallbearers were Ray Flora, Eugene Bishop, Douglas Deutsch, Rex Hall, Herman Bickle and Roger Thornburg.

Jean Akins was the organist, and the soloist was Mrs. Robert Johnson.

Mrs. Halter died Friday at Skiff Memorial Hospital in Newton.

Boyd-Nickell Funeral Home in Baxter handled arrangements.

Survivors are five sons, Louis and Lawrence, both of Baxter, and Harold, Wilber and Robert, all of Newton; a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth (Shirley) Brown of Newton; 12 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Ross (Florence) Altemeier of Aurora, Colo., Mrs. Elmer (Marie) Achtemeier of Newton and Mrs. Ann Starns of Grinnell.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband in 1957, a grandson, a daughter, four brothers and a sister.

Mrs. Halter, who had been employed at the Maytag Co. during World War II, was a member of the Congregational United Church of Christ.

The daughter of Phillip and Mary Retter Bach, she was born Nov. 10, 1 898 in Hardin County and was educated in Marshall County schools.

She was married Dec. 1, 1915 in Newton. ~ The Jasper County Tribune, Thursday, October 11, 1979