Tille Rathje 1898-1962

RATHJE, MIZAUR

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 6/11/2020 at 10:03:20

May 31, 1962 - The Anamosa Eureka

WYOMING--Funeral services for Mrs. Herman Rathje were held at the Wyoming Methodist church on Saturday, May 26 at 10 a.m.

Rev. G. M. Field, was clergyman. Mrs. Lafayette Bahnsen was organist and accompanied Mrs. John Miller, soloist.

Interment was in the Wyoming cemetery. Pallbearers were Malvin Martensen, August Hansen, Johannas Martensen, Louis Ledvina, Joe Teymer, Robert Mizaur.

Tillie Mizaur Rathje, daughter of Frank and Mary Ledvina Mizaur, was born Feb. 9, 1898, at Oxford Junction.

She attended the Oxford Junction schools and grew to womanhood in the community.

On May 19, 1925, she was married to Herman Rathje at the Little Brown church at Nashua. They made their home on a farm south of Wyoming until they moved to Wyoming in 1950.

Mrs. Rathje is survived by her husband and one brother, Louie Mizaur, Oxford Junction. She was preceded in death by her parents.