Winter, Wilhelm H. - 1889-1978

WINTER, BAHLKE

Posted By: Linda Vander Linden - Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/24/2010 at 14:01:10

Wilhelm H. Winter, 88, of Boyden, died Tuesday at the residence of a brief illness.

Services were at 2 P.M., Friday in St. John Lutheran Church, rural Boyden, the Rev. Daniel Hart officiated. Burial was in the church cemetery, with the Vogelaar-Bolin Funeral Home in charge.

Mr. Winter was born April 1, 1889 in rural Boyden. He married Dorothea Bahlke Sept. 14, 1917 at the home of her parents. The couple farmed. Mrs. Winter died in 1962.

Survivors include five sons, Albert, Fritz, Arnold and Ernest, all of Boyden, and Louis of Hastings, Neb.; two daughters, Miss Martha of Boyden and Mrs. Albert (Betty) McKnight of MacAllen, Texas; 10 grandchildren; four brothers, The Rev. John of Waverly, Adolph of Luverne, Minn., Albert L. of Boyden and the Rev. Theodore of Austin, Texas; and one sister, Mrs. Dorothea Fick of Luverne.

Source: Sioux Center News, February 22, 1978