BOENING, Robert August 1878-1953

BOENING, BRANDT, FREDERIKSEN, MIELKE

Posted By: Diane Scott (email)
Date: 3/23/2010 at 09:51:03

ST. ANSGAR MAN DIES SUDDENLY; RITES FRIDAY

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA - Funeral services for Robert A. Boening, 75, will be held Friday afternoon at Immanuel Lutheran Church with burial in the south cemetery. He died suddenly of a heart attack Monday on his way home from the farm.

Mr. Boening was born on the parental Ferdinand and Caroline (Brandt) Boening farm east of St. Ansgar on December 21, 1878. He was married to Lydia Mielke of Leeds, Wisconsin on May 30, 1907.

Survivors include the widow and two children; Mrs. L. C. Frederiksen of Omaha, Nebraska, and Lawrence, who lives on the home farm, four grandchildren and a brother, Otto Boening, of Faribault, Minnesota.

[Mason City Globe Gasette Thursday December 14, 1953]