Guttner, Martha (Hesse) 1881-1950

GUTTNER, HESSE

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 1/1/2012 at 17:58:09

Church Worker Stricken While Helping Mission. Bell-Enterprise: While happily engaged in helping to prepare food for the Mission festival Sunday at Christ Lutheran church, Mrs. Robert Guttner, 69, was stricken suddenly with a heart attack in the kitchen of her home and passed away instantly.
Funeral services were held in Christ church Wednesday.
A staunch member of the congregation and one of the most active members in its Ladies Aid, Mrs. Guttner had been chosen a committee member to arrange for the dinner served after the mission festival Sunday. She had been with a group of Aid member at the church Saturday night making preparations, and Sunday morning was busy in her kitchen baking pies for the Sunday church repast.
Death is thought to have come at about 7:30 o’clock. Mr. Guttner, in another room and aware of his wife’s activity went into the kitchen to investigate when he failed to hear further movement. He found that his faithful wife had passed away, and called neighbors and Dr. F. H. Christensen. Mrs. Guttner had been dead for more than an hour, Dr. Christensen said.
Born October 3, 1881, in the village of Cannewitz, Germany, her maiden name was Martha Hesse. In her native home she was baptized in the Lutheran faith and later was received as a communicant member through confirmation.
Martha Hesse and Robert Guttner were united in marriage in Cannewitz, May 20, 1907 and four months later set out for the United States of America. They arrived in Remsen September 7 of that year and remained to spend the rest of their lives in this community, to which friends had preceded them.
During the first year here they lived in Remsen, Mr. Guttner working by the day for various local people. The following spring they settled on a farm southeast of town working together faithful through many years, through the fat and the lean years, and farming continuously until they retired to Remsen in the spring of 1946. They bought a comfortable home in Remsen where Mr. Guttner continued to be of service in various line of labor.
To this union four children were born. They are: William of Marcus, Alfred and Elmer of Remsen and Raymond of Pierson. There are 10 grandchildren. Two step-brothers living in Germany also survive.
As a member of Christ Lutheran congregation one of its staunch supporters, Mrs. Guttner was also affiliated with the Ladies Aid in which she was a diligent worker. She was generally known as a devoted wife and mother, a splendid homemaker and a woman possessed of the sterling qualities and traits of character that endeared her to her many acquaintances.
The body was at the Moeller funeral home pending time for the final rites. Services there were held at 1:30 o’clock followed by services in Christ church and conducted by the pastor, the Rev. A. Noack, with interment in the Remsen cemetery.
Pall bearers were Fred Steffen, Adolph Groepper, Dick Kluver, John Hansen, Ernest Koch and Wm. Dawson. – Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, Oct 3, 1950, page 7.