Stuckenbruck, Matilda (Mrs. Joseph C.), 1867-1935

STUCKENBRUCK, NIELAND, LEMMERMANN

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From the Rock Valley Bee, May 31, 1935:

Death of Mrs. J. C. Stuckenbruck

Mrs. Matilda Stuckenbruck, for nearly 40 years a resident of Sioux county, died at her home here early Tuesday at the age of 68 years.

Funeral services were to be held Thursday at 2 o’clock at the home and 2:30 at the Presbyterian church with Rev. W. O. Harper in charge. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

Matilda, daughter of Henry and Maria Nieland, was born Nov. 3, 1867 in Benton county, Ia. She was married Oct. 5, 1892, to Joseph C. Stuckenbruck at Keystone, Iowa.

They lived on the Stocker farm near Keystone for four years. They then moved to Sioux county and settled on a farm south of Rock Valley where they lived 26 years. At the end of that period they retired from the farm and located in Ireton where they spent the last 12 years.

Mr. Stuckenbruck always enjoyed good health until a year and a half ago since which time she had occasional heart attacks, the last of which proved fatal.

To Mr. and Mrs. Stuckenbruck were born five children, Elsie, died at the age of 18 months. The others are Mrs. Emma Grau, Mrs. Alva Degan of Ireton, Mrs. Ethel Riegal and Richard Stuckenbruck of Sioux Center. There are also 7 grand children and one great grand daughter. Mrs. Stuckenbruck herself was one of a family of twelve but only one sister and three brothers survive. Mrs. Martha Hoffman of Hood River, Ore.; Will Nieland of Ashton, Ida.; and Charles Nieland of Hancock, Minn.; Leo Nieland of Blairstown, Iowa.

Mrs. Stuckenbruck for many years had been an honored member of the Rebekah lodge, she was a most excellent woman of unusual strength of character. She was widely known and universally loved and respected. Her kindly disposition and excellent judgment have been greatly appreciated. Her home and family were always her center of interest but her concern for others was most sincere.

While an infant she was baptized in the German Lutheran church. Her attendance at church services was very regular and her devotion to the cause of the Lord was genuine. She believed the Bible and accepted the gospel without question. Long a Christian in spirit and in fact she made solemn declaration with her husband of faith in Christ, and their reception into the membership of the Presbyterian church of Ireton occurred on May 5, just sixteen days before she was called to her heavenly home.

Her sorrowing husband, children, and other relatives have the profound sympathy of all.—Ireton Ledger.

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Basically the same obituary was published in the Hawarden Independent, May 23, 1935. An introduction to the obit says that the evening before her death she and her husband were paying a sympathy call to the Warren Nanninga home, where his mother had just died, and returned to their home late in the evening. Sometime after 11 o’clock Monday night Mrs. Stuckenbruck was suddenly taken ill with a heart attack and as soon as possible a doctor was called but she died before 1 o’clock Tuesday morning.

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From the Sioux Center News, May 30, 1935:

During Monday night Mrs. J. C. Stuckenbruck of Ireton died after only a few hours illness. She had been visiting her daughter Mrs. A. C. Grau, who is seriously ill at the Hull hospital and was apparently in normal health when Mr. Stuckenbruck called for her on Monday.

(The remainder of the short obit gives information found in the above obits. It gives alternate names for two of her children: Mrs. Elva Deegan and Mrs. Ethel Regell.

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RESEARCH NOTES

Her death certificate has her as Matilda Nieland, wife of Jos. C. Stuckenbruck, gives her birthplace as Germany, her death date as 1 a.m. May 21, 1935, and her cause of death as coronary thrombosis, onset 1932.

FindaGrave.com gives her full name as Matilda Maria Nieland Stuckenbruck, born 3 Nov 1867 in Luzerne, Benton County, Iowa; died 21 May 1935 in Ireton; buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Ireton; parents Henry Christoph Nieland (1821-1900) and Mary Dorothea Lemmermann Nieland (1824-1892); several siblings listed; husband Joseph Charles Stuckenbruck (1863-1936); children Elsie Stuckenbruck (1893-1897), Erma A. Grau (1895-1935), Alva Mae Degen (1896-1968), Ethel Ida Riegal (1898-1978), and Richard Charles Stuckenbruck (1900-1973).