Wessels, Herman T. H. 1891-1983

WESSELS, JANSSEN, GANTER, WESTERGARD, DIXON, KOERNER

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Date: 2/14/2010 at 11:54:26

Hawarden Independent, Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, USA Thursday, December 8, 1983

Herman T. H. Wessels, 92, Le Mars died Thursday, December 1, 1963, at his home of a long illness.

Services were at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, December 3, in St. John’s Lutheran Church at Le Mars. The Rev. Tom Lee and the Rev. Will Striepe officiated. Burial was in Memorial Cemetery under the direction of the Maurer-Johnson Funeral Home.

Mr. Wessels was born August 24, 1891, in Javer, Germany. He came to the United States in 1905. He farmed at Le Mars until 1958, when he retired.

He married Sophia Janssen February 10, 1920, in Reading Township, Sioux County. She died in 1965 at Le Mars. He married Flora Ganter June 24, 1968, in Sioux City. She died in 1975 at Le Mars.

Mr. Wessels was a member of St. John’s American Lutheran Church.

Survivors include a son, Leonard of Le Mars; three daughters, Mrs. Walter (Alma) Westergard of Hawarden, Mrs. Leonard (Bernice) Dixon of Benicia, California, and Mrs. Dale (Evelyn) Koerner of Holtville, California; 11 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

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