Gabel, Bertha Erbes (August) 1967-1927

GABEL, ERBES, KOUNKEL, SCHULZ

Posted By: Bruce Atkinson (email)
Date: 10/28/2007 at 16:14:53

DEATH CLAIMS EARLY SETTLER
MRS. MICHAEL GABEL DIES AT HER HOME FOLLOWING PAINFUL ILLNESS
Death claimed Mrs. Bertha Gabel, wife of Michael Gabel, early settler in Plymouth County, at her home, 215 Second Street SW., following an illness of several weeks on Wednesday evening. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran church and services will be held in that church this morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. J. J. Vollmar, pastor of the church, will conduct the services. Interment will be made at Lakefield, Minn., where her first husband is buried.
Mrs. Bertha Gabel was born in Germany February 9, 1867, and when she was a year old her parents came to America and settled in Wisconsin. She was united in marriage in 1883 with William Erbs. Mr. Erbs died in 1919. She was married to Michael Gabel in 1924.
She is survived by her husband, Michael Gabel, and her son, William Erbs, of Windom, Minn., and her daughters, Mrs. Wm. Kounkel, and Mrs. A. W. Kounkel, of Stanton township, and Mrs. W. P. Schulz, of Lakefield, Minn., and one sister.
Mrs. Gabel was a devoted wife and mother, a good neighbor and was highly esteemed by all who knew her.
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Unknown paper (LeMars, Plymouth County, Iowa) of ??/??/1927.