Klemme, August 1857-1940

KLEMME, BUEHRE

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Akron Register-Tribune
February 15, 1940

AUGUST KLEMME IS CALLED BY DEATH
Last Rites For Esteemed Akron Pioneer Will Be Held Saturday.

August Klemme, a well known and highly esteemed early day resident of northwest Plymouth county, passed away at his home in this city at about 10 o’clock Tuesday evening, February 13, 1940, of ailments incident to advanced age. He was quite well and active until four years ago. Mr. Klemme would have attained his eighty-fourth (sic 83rd)) birthday the 27th of April. In 1886, he came from Illinois and homesteaded in Preston township. Retiring from active farming in 1910, he and his devoted wife have since made their home in Akron. The community extends its sympathy to his wife, children and other near relatives in their bereavement. A suitable obituary will be published next week in these columns.

Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon, at 1:30 o’clock from the home of his son, Harry Klemme, and at 2 o’clock in the Preston Lutheran Church, Rev. K. Fenske officiating. Interment will be in the Preston township cemetery.
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Akron Register-Tribune
February 22, 1940

LAST RITES FOR AKRON PIONEER HELD SATURDAY
Aug. Klemme Had Been Resident Of This County More Than Fifty Years

August Klemme, a resident of northwest Plymouth county for more than fifty years, passed away at his home in Akron, Tuesday, February 13, 1940, at 10 p.m., death being due to advanced age. To him the past five years were of weakness and ailment, but he bore it patiently and with content. He attained the ripe age of 82 years, 9 months and 17 days.

Mr. Klemme was born April 27, 1857, thirty-five miles south of Chicago, in Will county, Illinois. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith in Zion Lutheran Church in Lake county, Illinois. He grew to young manhood in that vicinity. In 1881 he came to Iowa and bought a farm in Preston township, Plymouth county. He then returned to Chicago and worked at the carpenter trade until 1885. On November 26, 1885, he entered holy matrimony with Minnie Buehre at the Ev. Lutheran Church in Indiana. In 1886 they moved to his farm in Plymouth county and engaged in farming for many years. The couple was blessed with five children, of whom three preceded their father in death, as did one brother and two sisters. In 1910, Mr. and Mrs. Klemme retired from active farming and moved to Akron, which has since remained their home.

Mr. Klemme leaves to mourn his departure his beloved wife; two sons, Harry Klemme and Alfred Klemme, both residing east of here, near Ruble; ten grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Emma Boehner, and two brothers, Fred and Charles Klemme, of Crete, Illinois; also many other relatives and a host of friends. A man of upright and honorable character, industrious habits, kindly and sympathetic, a devoted husband and father and a good neighbor, he will be sincerely missed in the community in which he lived for so many years. He was a consistent Christian and was one of the sixteen charter members of the Preston Township Lutheran Church.

Funeral services were Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home of his son, Harry Klemme, and at 2 o’clock at the Preston Township Lutheran Church, conducted by Rev. Karl Fenske, the pastor. There was a large attendance. The pallbearers were six grandsons, Walter, Embert, Erwin, Wilmer, Vernon and Gordon Klemme. Interment was in the Preston Township Lutheran Church cemetery.

Relatives who came from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Frerichs, of Worthington, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Art Rehborg and family and Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Rehborg and family, of Harris, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Buehre and Mrs. Clarence Lemeke, of Sioux City.