Beitelspacher, Marie 1870-1955

BEITELSPACHER, EDEN, WILLMS, HELLING, HARMS, JANSSEN, BUCHOLZ, WESSELS, NOBLE, POPKEN

Posted By: Glenna Rice, volunteer (email)
Date: 2/10/2012 at 06:05:34

Mrs. Marie Beitelspacher

Funeral services for Mrs. Marie Beitelspacher, 85, longtime Plymouth county resident who died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Noble near Hawarden after a two-year period of sickness, were at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Sioux Center Co-op Burial association funeral home and at the Christ Lutheran church in Grant township at 2 p.m. Rev. Eldor Fruehling officiated, with assistance of Rev. F. Bunge. Burial was in Grant township cemetery.

Mrs. Beitelspacher was born in Jones county, Ia., April 4, 1870.

She came to Plymouth and to Grant township in 1873 and had lived in Grant township all of her life with the exception of a year in LeMars, nine years in Craig, Ia., and the last two years with her daughter at Hawarden. She was married to Carl Beitelspacher, October 3, 1885 in Grant township Lutheran church.

Survivors are two sons, Fred of Rockwell City, Ia., and Henry of LeMars; six daughters, Mrs. Jurgen Harms and Mrs. Dick Janssen, both of Ireton, Ia., Mrs. Henry Bucholz of Battle Lake, Minn., Mrs. Louise Wessels of Wahpeton, N.D., Miss Caroline Beitelspacher of Glenwood, Ia., and Mrs. George Nobel of Hawarden; a sister, Mrs. Tena Popken of LeMars; 39 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.

LeMars Globe Post
Thursday June 23, 1955, page 6, column 2
LeMars, Plymouth, Iowa