Mrs. Avis Almira Bohning (1902-1933)

BOHNING, HEREIM, SANDFORD, ERICKSON

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 4/26/2010 at 08:32:03

The Roland Record, Roland, Story County, Iowa, Wednesday, August 21, 1933.

FOUR FUNERALS WITHIN A WEEK

AN OCTOGENARIAN AND THREE YOUNG PERSONS CALLED BY DEATH

Four funerals have been conducted from the local churches the past week, three from Bergen church and one from Salem church.

[Omitted: Mrs. Anna Krohn - see her obituary]

Mrs. F. W. Bohning of Forest City, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hereim of this place, died Wednesday at the Mary Greeley hospital in Ames, and the funeral was held in Bergen church Friday afternoon.

[Omitted: Josiah Raymond - see his obituary]

[Omitted: Sam Rorvig, Jr. - see his obituary]

Mrs. F. W. Bohning

Mrs. Avis Almira Bohning, nee Hereim, was born south of Roland, August 12, 1902, and passed away at the Mary Greeley hospital in Ames July 26, 1933, at the age of 30 years, eleven months and fourteen days. She was baptized and confirmed in Bergen Lutheran church in Roland.

She was united in marriage to Frederic William Bohning of Belmond, December 30, 1925. They have since resided at Forest City, where Mr. Bohning is an instructor in the Forest City high school. Mr. and Mrs. Bohning were spending the summer at the home of her parents while Mr. Bohning was taking special work at Iowa State College, when she was taken ill with typhoid fever. She was take to the hospital in Ames in the hopes that she would recover, but passed away after an illness of less than three weeks.

She leaves to mourn her death besides her husband, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hereim, brother, Otis R. Hereim, of Roland, sister, Mrs. Myrtie Sandford of Barrington, Ill., her aged grandmothers, Mrs. A. O. Hereim and Mrs. Mary Erickson, and numerous other relatives and friends.

The funeral was held from the Hereim home and from the Bergen Lutheran church Saturday afternoon, Rev. M. O. Sumstad preaching the funeral sermon, with interment in the Roland cemetery. The pall bearers were summer graduate student friends of Mr. Bohning, John M. Norton, Chatsworth, Ill., Dean F. Kittle, Cairo, Ill., Otto H. Hubbell, Brookings, S. D., Harry E. Gregg, Maplewood, Mo., Lloyd M. Benson, Madison, Wis., Harold Palmer, Mason City, Iowa.

Those from a distance in attendance at the funeral included, Mr. and Mrs. Geoge Bohning, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bohning, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bohning, Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Heginger, Mr. and Mrs. Emory Galloway, Mr. and Mrs. Harm Steenblock, Simon Bohning, Mrs. Andrew Loats, Miss Ester Steenblock, Anneus Meints, Mr. and Mrs. Geoge Heginger, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Heginger, Adolph Kiplinger, Miss Martha Bohning, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Crabtree, Mrs. John Lieuwen, all of Belmond, Mr. and Mrs. John Bohning of Clear Lake, Mrs. Lyle Mangan, Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Lyng, Walter Barnard, Joseph Westby, Mrs. L. Wicks, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. Nels Pederson, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Olson, Miss Mildren Hanson, Miss Enid Hanson, Mrs. K. J. Hanson, Mrs. H. H. Hardenburgh, Henry Stoll, all of Forest City, Mrs. and Mrs. Ole Sharp, Miss Agnes Hall of Des Moines, Prof. and Mrs. W. L. Hunter, R. W. Breckenridge, Frank Everhardt, Miss Marjorie Hall, Mrs. John Sharp, of Ames, Henry Erickson of Shenandoah.

CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere appreciation to the neighbors, the relatives, and the friends for their kind assistance during our recent bereavement, and to those who so kindly sang for us at the services. We are deeply grateful to Rev. M. O. Sumstad for his frequent visits and for his kind words of consolation. - Frederic Bohning, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hereim, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sandford, Otis Hereim.