Mathias Bormann 1870-1945

BORMANN, ERPELDING, BECKER, EISCHEN

Posted By: Geo Clinton (email)
Date: 7/30/2012 at 15:02:41

September 18, 1945 - Kossuth County Advance - Matt Bormann, 75, retired farmer northwest of St Joe, died Sunday at St Josephs sanitarium Dubuque from a stroke suffered Friday evening. Funeral services were held this morning at 9 a.m. at the St Joe Catholic church, with Fr. George Theobald, Pastor, saying requiem high mass. Burial was in the family plot at St Joe and pallbearers were six grandsons: Wilfred and William Becker, St Joe; Robert and Philip Eischen, Algona; Roger and Maurice Bormann, Bode.

Mr Bormann had suffered a stroke three years ago and was taken six months later to the sanitarium where he had since been cared for.

Mr Bormann, a native of Luxembourg, was born May 6, 1870 and emigrated to the states when he was 20 years old. He went direct to the home of an aunt in Wisconsin, where he remained a year. He then came to Kossuth county where he had three brothers in the St Joe vicinity and worked on farms in that neighorhood till he was married in Jan 1895 to Anna Erpelding.

All their married life Mr and Mrs Bormann lived on a farm five miles northwest of St Joe and there six children were born and reared. The wife died in 1903 but Mr Bormann and the children remained on the farm and with aid of the two daughters, he kept the home going.

Surviving are the children: John, Bode; Pete, Chicago; Mrs Mary Becker, St Joe; Mrs Anna Eischen, Algona; George and Frank, Bode. There are 23 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Also surviving are three brothers, Nick and Pete, Algona and Father J.B. Bormann, Luxembourg.

One grandson, S Sgt. Marvin Eischen is in the service and had been in the south Pacific 28 months but is thought to be on his way home.