Opal (Schrader) Kolbe (1936)

KOLBE, SCHRADER, LOWE

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 7/6/2007 at 13:37:03

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 23, 1936
Page 9

Death of Mrs. Earl Kolbe

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schrader of Union township were called to Carroll last week by the death of their daughter, Mrs. Earl Kolbe. Mrs. Kolbe died at the hospital in Carroll after a brief illness. She was 29 years old.

Mrs. Kolbe was the former Opal Schrader and was born in Pocahontas county on November 21, 1906. She came with her parents to Adair county at the age of 9. Her schooling was received there and at Fonda, Iowa, where she graduated from high school.

On September 26, 1927, she was married in Des Moines to Earl Kolbe and since then her home had been on a farm in Sac county. She was a member of the Methodist church at Sac City.

She is survived by Mr. Kolbe and their two children, Margaret Elizabeth, 7 years old and Richard, aged six months. In addition she leaves her parents; a brother, Harry Schrader of Union township; and three sisters, Mrs. Alice Lowe of Greenfield, and Esther and Helen Schrader of Union township.

Funeral services were held last Saturday from the Methodist church in Sac City, in charge of the Rev. Corwin Taylor. Burial was made in the Oakland cemetery there.

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