Ihde, Emma Marie -- 1910 - 2000

TEEPE, IHDE, LINDERBAUM, OESTMANN, RUCKDASCHEL

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 3/22/2008 at 20:39:23

Emma Marie Ihde

Emma Marie Ihde died Tuesday, February 15, 2000, at the Lutheran Hospital in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. She was 89 years old.

Emma Marie was born on October 1, 1910 in Frankville Township, Winneshiek County, Iowa, near Ossian. She was the daughter of Joseph and Dena (Teepe) Ihde. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith at Zion Lutheran Church, Castalia.

She attended the Frankville Township Country Schools and lived with her parents and brother and sister until her parents died in 1953. She then made her home with a brother, Alfred, and sister, Clara, on the family farm until the spring of 1976 when she and Alfred moved into Ossian. She continued to live in her own home after her brother, Alfred, died in 1986.

She was a lifetime member of the Zion Lutheran Church, the Zion WELCA, a member of the Farm Bureau, and was a volunteer at the Winneshiek County R.S.V.P. Some of Emma's pastimes were sewing and quilting, listening to music, she loved to play cards, and clip and collect articles from the papers. Emma is best known for her sense of humor.

Emma is survived by one sister, Frieda Linderbaum and husband, Arthur, of Ossian, IA; a sister-in-law, Marie Ihde of West Union, IA; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; four brothers, Richard in 1980, Elmer in 1980, Alfred in 1986, and Louis in 1989; and three sisters, Clara in 1972, Alvina Oestmann in 1944 and Welma Ruckdaschel in 1990.

Services were held on Friday, February 18, 2000 at 2 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church, Castalia, Iowa, with Pastor David Lenth officiating. Interment was at Pleasant View Cemetery, Castalia.

Casketbearers were William Kuennen, Irvin Fosaaen, Craig Mundt, Alvin Hageman, James Elsbernd, and Francis Franzen.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.
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