Elly Cassens Voss

VOSS, CASSENS, WILLMS

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 7/27/2006 at 21:33:32

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
February 1979

Services Held For MRS. ELLY VOSS

Funeral services for Mrs. Elly Gerhardina Voss, 84, formerly of Cumberland, were held at 2 p.m. Monday, February 12, 1979, at the First Lutheran Church south of Wiota, with burial in the church cemetery. Pastor David Shemm officiated at the services. Mrs. Voss died Friday at the Madison County Memorial Hospital.

The daughter of Gerd and Hainka Cassens, she was born on May 24, 1894 in Dornumbergrode, Germany and was married to Martin G. Voss on July 1, 1922 in Blomberg, Germany. They came to the United States in 1929 and settled in the Cumberland area. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church south of Wiota.

Surviving are a son, Remmer of Winterset; a sister, Edie Willms of Germany; four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and four brothers.