Peter W. Martens (1846-1932)

MARTENS, PETERS, PEDERSON

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 4/3/2010 at 12:00:02

The Roland Record, Roland, Story County, Iowa, Wednesday, March 29, 1933.

MARTENS DIED SUNDAY

P. W. Martens, a resident of this community for over half a century, died at his home at 6:00 o'clock Sunday evening. He had been failing for several years and was helpless much of the time. He caught a cold a few days before he died which developed into pneumonia, which caused his death.

Mr. Martens died just three weeks after his wife was buried. She died March 2 at the age of eighty-six and a half years and Mr. Martens if he had lived until May 12 would have been 87 years old.

The funeral will be held today at 1:00 o'clock at the home and at 1:30 at Salem church, with Rev. Olaf Holen in charge. An obituary will be published next week.

The Roland Record, Roland, Story County, Iowa, Wednesday, April 5, 1933.

MARTENS FUNERAL HELD LAST WEEK

HAD LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY FOR OVER HALF CENTURY

Funeral services were held last Wednesday for Peter W. Martens, longtime resident of the community, at the Martens home and at Salem Lutheran church, Rev. Olaf Holen officiating. Interment was made in the Roland cemetery. The pall bearers were the same ones that served at the funeral of Mrs. Martens a month ago, Martin Nereim, J. J. Hoverstein, Wm. Hodnefield, Jim Hatteberg, O. K. Johnson and J. J. Thompson.

Peter W. Martens was born May 12, 1846, at Mosterø, Norway, and died at his home in Roland, March 26, 1933, at the age of 86 years, 10 months and 14 days.

When a young man of 22 years, he came to America and located first at Marengo in Iowa county. It was there he was married on February 21, 1877, to Martha Peters and they lived happily together for 56 years, until the death of Mrs. Martens on March 2 of this year. They came to Roland shortly after their marriage and settled on a farm northeast of town where they lived for 43 years and 13 years ago moved to town, where they have since resided.

Eight children were born to them of whom four died in infancy. The surviving children are Mrs. Paul F. Pederson, Peter M. Martens and Phillip H. Martens of Roland and Elmer K. Martens of Conroy, Iowa. He is also survived by twelve grandchildren and by one sister, Bertha Martens, who has made her home there the past few years taking care of her brother and his wife.

Mr. Martens had been crippled for many years, but had been up a few days before he died. He was taken ill with a cold which developed into pneumonia which caused his death a few data later.

Those from out of town in attendance at the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Martens and family of Conroy, Martin Martenson, Lizzie and Mattie Englebrit of Williamsburg, Mrs. Telmer Sime of Rolfe, I. O. L. Johnson of Jewell, Mr. and Mrs. Lars Raymond of Randall, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ersland of Story City, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Goodmanson of Gilbert, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Haukoos of McCallsburg, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Ole Jacobson, Mrs. Henning Helgeson, Mrs. N. E. Swenson, Mrs. Clara Strong, Randall Hatteberg, O. K. Johnson, Wm. Hodnefield, Ernest Johnson, John Pederson of Radcliffe.

CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our sincere thanks to all our neighbors and friends for the kindness shown during the illness and death of our father, grandfather and brother, P. W. Martens. Thanks for the floral offerings and donation to mission in his memory. Again we remember Rev. Olaf Holen for his many calls and comforting words, Randall Hetteberg, Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Boyd, Mrs. Cyrus Thompson, Earl Quam and Mrs. M. M. Eggland for the music at the funeral, and all who have helped. - The Children, Grandchildren, and Bertha Martens.