MAERTENS, Emma (nee DeGrande) 1877-1955

DEGRANDE, MAERTENS, LIEVROUW, ANDERSON, BOERJAN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/24/2009 at 00:22:08

MRS. EMMA MAERTENS

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Emma Maertens
Dies at St. Ansgar

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA — Funeral services for Emma Maertens, 79, will be held at the Catholic Church in St. Ansgar Saturday at 9 a.m. She died last Wednesday.

Mrs. Maertens was born in Belgium and came to the United States in 1903, where she lived in Omaha, Nebraska, Marshall, Minnesota, and St. Ansgar. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Lievrouw east of St. Ansgar as the result of a heart condition.

Her husband and two sons preceded her in death.

Burial will be in the Catholic Cemetery in Osage.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Friday, July 8, 1955]

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Mrs. Emma Maertens

Word was received Tuesday of the death of Mrs. Emma Maertens, 78, of St. Ansgar, a former Council Bluffs resident. She died Wednesday after a short illness.

Mrs. Maertens was born in Belgium and came to the United States when she was a youth. She had lived here many years ago. She was a member of the St. Ansgar Catholic Church.

Survivors include: three sons, Leo of Council Bluffs, Sylvin of Nora Springs, and Morris of Cottonwood, Minn.; three daughters, Mrs. George Boerjan and Mrs. Annie Lievrouw. both of St. Ansgar; and Mrs. Martha Anderson of Mason City: several grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.

Requiem Mass was celebrated Saturday at St. Ansgar Catholic Church. Interment was in the Osage Catholic Cemetery.

[Council Bluffs Nonpareil - Tuesday, July 12, 1955]
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Daughter of August and Louise DeGrande.

Birth: Feb. 11, 1877
Zedelgem, Belgium

Wife of Medard Maertens

Death: Jul. 6, 1955
Saint Ansgar, Iowa

Burial:
Sacred Heart Cemetery
Osage, Iowa

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