Ludtke, Mrs. Emil 1893-1978

LUDTKE, JOHNS

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/10/2007 at 20:29:25

MRS. EMIL LUDTKE

Mrs. Emil Ludtke, 85, formerly of Pierson, died Wednesday (Dec. 20, 1978) in a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the United Methodist Church of Pierson. Rev. Philip W. Cline will officiate. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery under the direction of Dickison-Michaelson funeral home at Kingsley.

Mrs. Ludtke, the former Ethel Ann Johns, was born Aug. 4, 1893, in Plymouth county. She was married Jan. 25, 1934, at Sioux City. Mr. Ludtke died in 1969.

She worked as a public health nurse in Minnesota, Woodbury county and in Texas. She was a member of the United Methodist Church and a 50 year member of the Order of Eastern Star 509 at Pierson. She had lived for the last several years in the Kingston Apts., at Kingsley.

Survivors include one step-daughter, Mrs. Bud (Arlene) Harberts of Alexander, Minn.; one step-son, Lloyd of Loveland, Colo.; eight step grandchildren and several step great-grandchildren.

Source: LeMars Sentinel newspaper
Dated Friday & Monday, Dec. 22 & 25, 1978