Lehr, Samuel and Ada died 1974

LEHR, VANDENBRINK

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Date: 8/30/2012 at 19:26:34

Nov 27, 1974 Sioux Center News
Area Obituaries
MRS. SAMUEL E. LEHR
Funeral services were held at St. Paul's Lutheran church in Sioux City November 20 for Mrs. Samuel E. Lehr, 67, of Sioux City, a former Orange City resident, who died November 17 in a Phoenix, Ariz., hospital of injuries she suffered in an explosion in a travel trailer at Prescott, Ariz., on November 8.
Mr. Lehr died two days earlier of injuries he received in the same explosion, which apparently was caused by a gas leak. The couple was vacationing in Arizona.
Mrs. Lehr, the former Ada Jeanette Vanden Brink, was born on December 8, 1906, at Maurice, and moved to Sioux City 45 years ago. She was married to Mr Lehr on March 28, 1931, in Sioux City.
Survivors include her son, Robert J. of Sioux City; a brother, George Vanden Brink of Towson, Md.; a sister, Mrs. Don (Matjilda) Smith of Deerfield
Beach, Fla., and six grandchildren.

Alton Democrat of Nov 27, 1974
Services for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Lehr of Sioux City were Nov. 20 in St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Mrs. Lehr, 67, died last Sunday at the burn unit of a Phoenix, Ariz., hospital of injuries she suffered in an explosion in a travel trailer Nov. 8 at Prescott, Ariz.
Mr. Lehr, 70, died last Friday of injuries he received in the same explosion, which apparently was caused by a gas leak. The couple was vacationing in Arizona.
Mrs. Lchr, the former Ada Jeanette Vanden Brink, was born on Dec. 8, 1906, at Maurice and came to Sioux City 45 , years ago. She was married to Mr. Lehr on March 28, 1931, in Sioux City. She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
Survivors of Mrs. Lehr include her son, Robert J. of Sioux City; a brother, George Vanden Brink of Towson, Md.; a sister, Mrs. Don (Mathilda) Smith of Deerfield Beach, Fla., and six grandchildren.