Letsche, Johann Martin "Martin" 1871-1930

LETSCHE, SCHMIDT

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 3/28/2012 at 14:14:16

MARTIN LETSCHE CALLED BY DEATH. Prominent Farmer Dies at His Home Southwest of Marcus Sunday Morning.
Johann Martin Letsche, a prominent farmer of this vicinity, died at hishome northwest of Marcus at &30 Sunday morning, June 1, of pneumonia. He had attained the age of 55 years, 10 months and 4 days. Mr. Letsche was in the best of health until Friday, May 23, when he was stricken with chills while visiting in the home of a neighbor. His condition was at first not thought to be serious but pneumonia soon developed. During the night of May 30 he became rapidly worse and on Sunday morning he breathed his last.
Johann Martin Letsche, the oldest of a family of seven children, was born July 27, 1871, in Undingen, Wurtemberg, Germany. In the year 1891 at the age of seventeen he came to America. He spent two years at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and then after a brief stay in Chicago came to Marcus. He worked on farms in that vicinity for ten years. On May 11, 1902, he married Miss Frieda Louise Schmidt, of Remsen. Eight children were born to this union, five sons and three daughters. One son lived but a short time. Mr. and Mrs. Letsche spent the first year of their married life in Remsen, but in 1904 they moved to a farm in Plymouth county and in 1905 they settled on their present farm.
Martin Letsche was affiliated with Trinity Lutheran church of Amherst township and was a faithful, active member of the congregation. Although he was a modest, retiring disposition his cheerfulness constancy and devotion to duty won for him the respect and admiration of all who made his acquaintance.
Besides his sorrowing widow, seven children survive him. They are: Roland, Pau, Le Roy, Emma, Harold, Ruth and Faye. Three brothers, George of Humboldt, South Dakota, Gothilf, of Cherokee, and Herman, of Remsen, and one sister, Mrs. L. Schmitz, of Remsen, also mourn his death.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at Trinity Lutheran church of Amherst township. – Le Mars Globe Post, June 12, 1930, page 6.