Carstensen, Catherine 1905 - 1992

CARSTENSEN, HARMS, REWERTS

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/8/2010 at 13:19:50

Catherine Carstensen

Catherine G. Carstensen, 87, of Le Mars, died Thursday, May 21, 1992 at her home.

Services were Saturday at St. John's American Lutheran Church, Le Mars. Rev. David Kramer officiated. Burial was in Resthaven Memory Gardens, Le Mars, under direction of Mauer Johnson Funeral home in Le Mars.

Mrs. Carstensen was born Feb. 27, 1905, in Le Mars, to John J. and Katharina (Rewerts) Harms. She married George Carstensen May 12, 1926, in Le Mars. The couple farmed near Merrill from 1926 to 1946 and moved to Le Mars in 1946. He died in 1972. She was a lifelong Plymouth County resident and was a homemaker and longtime Plymouth County Home employee. She was a member of St. John's American Lutheran Church in Le Mars.

Survivors include two sons, Wendel and his wife, Gen of Le Mars, and Ray and his wife, Lois of Knob Noster, Mo.; two daughters, Alice Meins and her husband, Charles of Warrensburg, Mo., and Mildred Tietgen and her husband, Willard of Warrensburg; two sisters, Theresa Engel of Sioux City and Hilda Harms of Le Mars; two brothers, Fred Harms pf Le Mars, and Clarence Harms arid his wife, Baulah of Hawarden; and six grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; four brothers, Jurgen, Carl, Alfred and Donald; a grandchild, June Meins and a sister, Meta Eilers

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, May 28, 1992
Akron, Iowa