Popken, Mrs. Otto (Emma) 1891-1951

POPKEN, SCHWARTING, ROHLFS, SOMMERVOLD, SWANSON

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Date: 3/30/2010 at 08:25:57

Hawarden Independent, Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, USA March 1, 1951

Mrs. Otto Popken Dies at Hospital

Mrs. Otto Popken, 59, died at the Hawarden hospital early Wednesday morning following a long illness from leukemia. Mrs. Popken had been ill for approximately two years. A year ago she sought-medical aid at the Mayo clinic at Rochester, Minn. The past year she submitted to many blood transfusions at the Hawarden hospital. She became critically ill Tuesday.

Emma Amelia Schwarting was born May 10, 1891, in Golzwarden, Oldenburg, Germany, and came to America in her youth. She was confirmed in the Lutheran church in Germany.

On April 4, 1913, she was married to Otto Popken at Le Mars. For many years she lived on a farm in the Akron vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Popken came to Hawarden about three years ago.

She is survived by her husband four children, Mrs. Roland Rohlfs, Mrs. Alvin Sommervold and William of Akron, and Mrs. David Swanson of Sioux City; two sisters, Frieda Schwarting of Chicago and Sophie Schwarting who resides in Germany; one brother, William of Williamsville, N.Y. and four grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements had not been completed Wednesday afternoon. The body was taken to the Barnard Funeral Home.