TROGE, Elizabeth (nee Frieholtz) 1858-1936
TROGE, FRIEHOLTZ, KOCH, HARTWIG, DYKEMON, ROHR, ADRIAN, SHERLOCK, SMALLEY
Posted By: Diane Scott (email)
Date: 8/2/2010 at 16:12:40
Elizabeth (nee Frieholtz) Troge April 8, 1858 –May 17, 1936
Wife of Gustav E. Troge 1850-1909
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DEATHS OF THREE WOMEN AT OSAGE ARE REPORTED
Osage, Iowa – Three elderly Osage Women, Mrs. George Wolf, 60; Mrs. Gustave E. Troge, 77; and Lizzie Dynna, 53, died over the week-end.
A paralytic stroke ended Mrs. Wolf’s life. Her husband and two sons survive. Mrs. Troge died of pneumonia. She is survived by 10 grandchildren. Miss Dynna died at the state hospital at Independence, where she was commited last month. Four sister survive her.
Mason City Globe Gazette, Monday May 18, 1936
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Mrs. Troge, Resident of Osage Vicinity for Many Years, Is Buried.
Osage, Iowa – Funeral services were held Tuesday at 1 o’clock at the home and at 2 o’clock at the St. Johns Lutheran church in charge of the Rev. F. A. Brauer for Mrs. Gustav E. Troge, 77, who died Sunday at her home here of bronchial pneumonia.
Elizabeth Freiholz was born 77 years ago in Germany. At the age of six she came to Cedar Falls with relatives. She was married at Charles City to Gustav E. Troge and the came to Mitchell county and settled on a farm. Twenty-seven years ago her husband died. For the past 13 years Mrs. Troge made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Dora Koch and with her son, Charles Troge, who survive along with eight other children; Mrs. Clara Hartwig, Mrs. Karl Koch, Mrs. H. F. Dykemon of Argyle, Minn.; Mrs. Alvin G. Rohr, Mrs. Alfred Adrian; Mrs. William Sherlock of Waverly; Mrs. Marvin Smalley; William Troge.
Burial was in the Lutheran Cemetery.
[Mason City Globe Gazette, Tuesday May 19, 1936]
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#3:Note: FindaGrave.com has both of them buried in the Calvary Cemetery, Osage, Mitchell, Iowa
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Photo from MITCHELL COUNTY HISTORY, 1989, pg 444.
Mitchell Obituaries maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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