Ziegenmeyer, Esther F. 1895-1988

ZIEGENMEYER, PAUL, MCCOSH, SCHMITZ, CARTER, KOGER, MARSHALL, WELLS, MCGAUGHIN, WILEY

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The Grinnell Herald-Register (Grinnell, Iowa) May 12, 1988

MRS. ZIEGENMEYER RITES HELD

Esther F. Ziegenmeyer, 93, died Sunday, May 8, at Friendship Manor.

Funeral services were conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Smith Funeral Home, with the Rev. John Epperson of the Grinnell Christian Church officiating. Organist was Jolene Jones, and pallbearers were Robert Marshall, Cecil Ringgenberg, Richard Wells, Daniel Ziegenmeyer, Matthew Ziegenmeyer and Steven Ziegenmeyer. Burial was in Hazelwood Cemetery.

Memorials in Mrs. Ziegenmeyer's name may be left at the Smith Funeral Home, where friends may call for additional information.

The daughter of Maxwell and Matilda Paul McCosh, she was born March 29, 1895, in Hickory Grove Township, Jasper County. She attended rural school. She moved with her family to an acreage north of Grinnell and graduated from Grinnell High School in 1913.

She taught in Grant No.8 School southeast of Grinnell until her marriage to Otto T. Ziegenmeyer Feb. 2, 1916. The couple farmed near Blue Earth, Minn., then returned to the Grinnell area to farm in the Blue Point and Searsboro communities. They began farming in the Maple Grove area southeast of Grinnell in 1927.

Mrs. Ziegenmeyer was a member of the Maple Grove Community Club and the First Presbyterian Church. She later worked as a cook at the former Community Hospital for several years.

She is survived by her children, Margaret F. Schmitz of St. Louis, Mo., and Raymond G. and Charles E. Ziegenmeyer, both of Grinnell; nine grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Lois Carter of Grinnell.

She was preceded in death by her husband; one son, Max; her parents; and seven sisters, Jennie Koger, Edith Koger, Margaret Marshall, Jessie Wells, Ruth McGaughin, Mary Wiley and Martha McCosh.