Hentges, Regina 1891-1981

HENTGES, WAGNER

Posted By: Mary Holub, volunteer (email)
Date: 3/26/2020 at 11:42:06

From: Le Mars Daily Sentinel, May 7, 1981

Funeral services for Regina (Gine) Hentges, 90, Le Mars native and lifelong resident, will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic church in Le Mars.

Rev. Francis Staber will officiate and burial will be in Calvary cemetery under direction of the Luedtke funeral home.

A prayer service at 8 p.m. is scheduled for Thursday when the parish rosary will be recited.

Miss Hentges died May 4, 1981, at Plymouth Manor care center after a lengthy illness.

She was born Oct. 9, 1891, in Le Mars to Nicholas and Anna Wagner Hentges.

Miss Hentges worked as a telephone operator for Central telephone company, retiring in 1958.

She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers, John S., Clem, Dan, William and Leo, and by two sister, Cleo and Helen Hentges.

Survivors are a sister, Emma, Le Mars; a nice Mary Ann Robinson of Prescott, Ariz., and four nephews, William and Dick Hentges, both of Santa Ana, Calif.; John N. of Le Mars, and Thomas Hentges of Burlington, Wis