GROTH, Esther A. (Lutz) 1904-2000

GROTH, LUTZ, FELDT, KITTLESON, SULLIVAN, ROSEL

Posted By: Karen L. Robertson (email)
Date: 1/28/2013 at 18:53:40

Funeral services for Esther A. Groth, 95, formerly of Osage and St. Ansgar, who died January 31, 2000, were held February 3 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Osage, with the Rev. Chris E. Gugel officiating.

Esther A. Groth was born August 14, 1904, at Grafton, the daughter of William and Martha (Feldt) Lutz. She was baptized on September 18, 1904 by Rev. John Landdeck and confirmed on March 28, 1920 by Rev. Carl Landdeck at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Grafton. The family moved to Otranto in 1913 and she graduated from Otranto High School in 1924.

Esther was united in marriage to Ervin Groth on June 13, 1929 by Rev. Paul Brammer at her home in Otranto. They farmed near Otranto, Osage and St. Ansgar. Ervin died August 21, 1951. Later Esther moved to Osage where she worked at the Mitchell County Memorial Hospital and later with the Mitchell County Homemaker Health Care.

Esther is survived by two daughters, Marilyn Sullivan and husband Keith of Osage, and Barbara Rosel and husband Richard of Clear Lake; 13 grandchildren; 31 great grandchildren; a brother, Elmer Lutz of Mason City.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Ervin in 1951, two sons, John and David, and a sister, Elvira Kittleson.

Interment was in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in St. Ansgar.

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