DECKLEVER, Amanda (Ruehlow) 1882-1944

DECKLEVER, RUEHLOW, VEDDER, ROEHR, BORCHARDT, BELZ, CUELEAS

Posted By: Diane Scott (email)
Date: 5/23/2010 at 13:31:32

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MRS. AMANDA DECKLEVER
DIES AT HOME IN OSAGE

OSAGE, IOWA - Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Amanda Ruehlow Decklever, 63, who died suddenly at her home in Osage Saturday morning. She had been in failing health, but death was sudden. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. at the Shellady funeral home and 2 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran church, with the Rev. E. H. Yohr in charge. Burial will be in the Osage cemetery.

Amanda Ruehlow was born May 4, 1882 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ruehlow. She resided with her parents near Toeterville until her marriage in 1902 to William Decklever. They resided on a farm near St. Ansgar, then south of Osage, and retired to Osage in 1934.

Surviving are her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Clyde** Roehr of Union township, two sons, Lawrence and Lloyd Decklever of Osage, three sisters, Minnie Cueleas, Waterloo; Mrs. Frank Borchardt and Mrs. George Belz of St. Ansgar, and two brothers, Paul Decklever* of Chanute, Kansas, and Leonard Decklever* of St. Ansgar.

[Mason City Globe Gazette Monday March 27, 1944]
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Note: *(the two brothers, Paul and Leonard last names should read Ruehlow and not Decklever).

Note: Daughter of Charles "Carl" Ruehlow and Emilie (Vedder) Ruehlow.

Note: **Mrs. Clyde Roehr is Verna Emilie Bertha Decklever Roehr.

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Photo from Mitchell County Press, 1944.

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