MORSE, Thelma I. (Boehmler) 1915-1962

BOEHMLER, MORSE, JARMS, SCHUTTE, BOCK, BENINGA

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Date: 9/5/2010 at 19:36:51

Funeral services were held last Wednesday afternoon at the Elgin Methodist Church for Mrs. H. R. Morse, 47, of Castalia, who passed away May 13. Burial was in the Pleasant Grove cemetery, Elgin.

Mrs. Horace R. Morse, the former Thelma I. Boehmler, was born on February 23, 1915 near Cedar Falls, Iowa, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Boehmler. Her childhood and youth were lived in Fayette county and she graduated from the Randalia high school upon completion of her formal education.

On June 9, 1935 she was united in marriage with Horace R. Morse. They became the parents of three daughters. Having been baptized as a child, she, with her family, united with St. Paul's Methodist Church on April 6, 1952.

On May 6, Mrs. Morse was critically injured at her home and taken to the Community Memorial Hospital at Postville where she passed away Sunday, May 13, at the age of 47 years, two months, and 20 days. She was preceded in death by two brothers, who died in infancy, and her mother who passed away May 7, 1952.

Left to mourn her passing are her husband Horace, and their three daughters: Mary, who is Mrs. Richard Jarms of Iowa City, Jean, Mrs. Leonard Schutte of Castalia, and Patricia of Seattle, Washington; also four grandchildren. Additional survivors include her father, Albert Earl Boehmler; two sisters, Maxine, Mrs. L. H. Bock of Cedar Falls and Marjorie, Mrs. Larry Beninga of Waterloo; and three brothers, Clifford Boehmler of Hawkeye, Robert Boehmler of Williston, Florida and Lester Boehmler of Snohomish, Washington.

Postville, Iowa newspaper of the time clipping, from Dorothy Schave's obituary collection.