Irene Youngwirth Kohlhaas 1928-1957

KOHLHAAS, YOUNGWIRTH, KRAMER, PLATHE, REDING, MCGUIRE

Posted By: Geo Clinton (email)
Date: 8/2/2012 at 18:39:04

Jan 17, 1957 - Algona Upper Des Moines - The entire St. Joe area was saddened Tuesday morning when it became known Mrs Richard Kohlhaas, 28, had succumbed at 5 a.m. that day to leukemia in a Rochester, Minn, hospital. Funeral services for Mrs Kohlhaas will be held Friday at 9:30 a.m. in the St. Joe Catholic church with Fr. Leo Schumacher officiating. Burial will be in the St. Joe cemetery.

Mrs Kohlhaas had been ill with the disease for the past month and a half and was taken to Rochester Sunday, Jan. 6. Irene Bertha Youngwirth, daughter of Ed and Margaret Youngwirth, was born June 19, 1928 at Whittemore. She was raised and educated there and was later employed in Algona prior to her marriage Feb. 7, 1950 to Richard Kohlhaas at Whittemore. Four children, ranging in age from five months to six years, were born to the couple. They are Yvonne, Jerome, Sandra, and Karen, and with Mr Kohlhaas, survive.

Other survivors include her parents, Mr and Mrs Ed Youngwirth of Whittemore; four sisters, Dolores (Mrs Albert Kramer), Algona; Helen (Mrs Arthur Plathe), Corwith; Edna (Mrs Marvin Reding), Livermore; and Ruth (Mrs William McGuire), West Bend; and two brothers, Leonard Youngwirth, Emmetsburg, and Victor Youngwirth, Burt.

Mr Kohlhaas farms northeast of St. Joe. Mrs Kohlhaas was a member of the C.D.A. Pallbearers at the funeral will be Howard Weydert, Leonard McGuire, John Geishecker, Earl Steier, Luke Youngwirth, and Bill Ferstl.