Dora Blunk

BLUNK

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 7/7/2014 at 10:32:59

Blunk

Mrs. Dora Blunk, aged 79 years, died at Mercy Hospital Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock after a lingering illness. She had been a resident of Davenport for the past 48 years, having come to America and direct to Davenport in 1853. She was born in Holstein, Germany, in 1832. In 1858 she was married to Claus Henry Blunk who died in 1891. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. Catherine Blunk, of this city. The funeral will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock from the Nissen & Hartwig funeral parlors with burial in the City cemetery.

Source: Davenport Democrat and Leader, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, 07 July 1911.