Kosse, Joseph, 1884-1935

KOSSE, SALENTINE, MEYER

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:38

From the Alton Democrat, April 12, 1935:

Jos. Kosse Dies At Iowa City

Jos. Kosse, a Sioux county resident for nine years, died Sunday evening [April 7] at the University hospital, Iowa City, where he had twice gone for treatment after an illness of some months with actinomychosis.

He was born March 28, 1884, at Le Mars and was reared in that neighborhood. He was married to Miss Josephine Salentine of LeMars and two children were born to the union, both dying in infancy. For several years the couple have resided on the Arens estate farm bordering Plymouth county where they were unfortunate in being in the hail district the past year, and Mr. Kosse’s long and fatal illness followed.

The couple were members of St. Mary’s Catholic parish in Alton, where funeral services were held Wednesday morning followed by interment at St. Joseph’s cemetery, LeMars.

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His death certificate says he died in Alton, Sioux County, where he had lived for nine years, although it is signed by a doctor of the S.U.I. Hospital, Iowa City. It adds his parents, Hy. Kosse, born in Germany, and [no forename] Meyer, born in Iowa; died at 7:00 p.m. April 7, 1935; cause, actinomycosis [an anaerobic infection characterized by abscess(es) with multiple drainage channels], onset December 1934; contributory cause, septicemia, onset March 1935. He was operated on for drainage of abscesses on March 23.

His widow’s auction sale advertisement in the Alton Democrat, April 29, 1935, enumerates their household goods, farm machinery and livestock.