Byrdena Poppe 1925-1944

POPPE, ORTGIES, TUETKEN

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Date: 3/22/2021 at 08:27:24

November 30, 1944 - The Anamosa Journal

Mrs. Allen Poppe, 19, died Thursday morning at the University Hospital in Iowa City, where she was taken last Friday, when it was believed that she was suffering from infantile paralysis.

No arrangements for funeral service had been made Thursday. Body was taken to the Smykil Funeral home.

She was formerly Byrdena Ortgies, and is survived by her parents, her husband, and other immediate relatives. She lived on a farm near Anamosa, and graduated from the Anamosa high school with the class of 1943, as valedictorian of her class.

December 7, 1944 - The Anamosa Journal

Rev. H. L. Buesing of the Lutheran church in Anamosa officiated Monday at the funeral service at the church for Mrs. Allen Poppe, 19, who died last Thursday at the University hospital in Iowa City from bulbar paralysis, caused by acute poliomielitis.

Those who sang at the service were classmates of the deceased, June Schrader Beadle, Margaret Siebels Howie, Joyce Herren Moenk and Claire Gerdens. Pall bearers were Eugene Cox, Gerald Doyle, Robert Gerdes, James Kraus, Robert Lincoln and Alvin Weers. Burial was at Riverside cemetery.

Byrdena Helena Ortgies was born May 1, 1925, in Castle Grove township, fourth child in a family of eight of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ortgies.

She was baptized in the Lutheran faith June 7, 1925, in the Castle Grove church. Having moved with her parents near to Anamosa in March, 1937, she attended the Bible school under Rev. A. Matthias, by whom she was confirmed with five others Aug. 7, 1938.

Following year she entered the Anamosa high school, where she was an honor student, and from where she graduated in 1943 as the valedictorian of a class of 60.

She was married to Allen R. Poppe, son of Henry H. Poppe, June 9, 1943. She was a Sunday school teacher, and taught for a year at Wayne rural school No. 8.

Few days before her husband was well enough to be released from the Anamosa hospital, where he had undergone an operation for appendicitis, she noticed signs of fatigue and weakness in herself, and went to the home of her parents. She was taken to the University hospital, Iowa City, Nov. 24. Three days later it was found necessary to use artificial respiration. She died Nov. 30 at 3:20 a.m.

Surviving are her husband, her parents, two brothers and five sisters, Rudolph, Monticello; Lawrence, at home; Helen, San Francisco, Calif.; Minnie, Mrs. Gerd Tuetken, Anamosa; Laura, San Francisco, Calif.; Dorothy and Wilma, at home.