Sampson, Emma 1894-1990

SAMPSON, GOLM, POBANZ

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 4/27/2009 at 19:45:40

EMMA SAMPSON

Emma Sampson, 96, longtime LeMars resident and retired clothier, died Wednesday (Dec. 12, 1990) at Plymouth Manor Care Center in LeMars.

Funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home in LeMars with Rev. David Kramer officiating. Burial will be in LeMars Memorial Cemetery.

Visitation begins at 2 p.m. Friday with the family present from 7-8 p.m. at the Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home.

The former Emma Golm was born at Junction City, Wis., Jan. 2, 1894, to John and Augusta Pobanz Golm. She came to LeMars at age 8, where she received her public school education, after which she worked in the ladies Ready-to-Wear department of Schneider-Bowers Department Store.

On March 15, 1920, she married Homer Sampson, the son of Joseph and Jessie Lionelle Sampson and moved to Fargo, N.D. Mr. Sampson, who had served as a Lieutenant in World War I, died in 1932.

At that time she returned to LeMars and resumed her career with the department store. In 1939, she and Otheila M. Ender bought the ladies ready-to-wear department of Schneider-Bowers, and the new partnership was Ender-Sampson Fashion Shop, which they operated for many years.

She was a former member of LeMars Chamber of Commerce and the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. She was a life member of Women’s Missionary, and the American Legion Auxiliary. She was a member of St. John’s American Lutheran Church in LeMars.

Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Ross (Maxine) King of Sioux City; two grandsons, David King and Robert King, both of Denver; and a granddaughter, Susan Schmitt of Waterloo; three great grandchildren, Emily, Steven, and Andrew Schmitt.

She was also preceded in death by her parents; four brothers and three sisters.

~Source: The LeMars Daily Sentinel, December 1990