LUDWIG, Dorothy Mae (Zweibahmer) 1924-2001

HUINKER, ZWEIBAHMER, LUDWIG, DALE, ELLIOT, JOHNSON, KUBESH, BROGHAMMER, KLISART

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Date: 10/14/2010 at 16:08:30

Decorah Public Opinion, May 29, 2001

Dorothy Ludwig

Editor's Note: Decorah Newspapers recently received the following obituary.

Dorothy Ludwig, 76, of Scottsdale, Ariz., died Monday, April 16, 2001 of cancer.

Her body was cremated and will be buried at Fort Snelling, Minn.

Dorothy Mae Zweibahmer was born Aug. 2, 1924, the daughter of Clemence and Walburga (Huinker) Zweibahmer at Ossian.

She attended St. Aloysius Grade School and Calmar High School.

She was married to Francis Ludwig June 4, 1945 at St. Aloysius Church in Calmar.

Survivors include four daughters, Sandy and William Dale of Eden Prairie, Minn.; Barbara and Robert Elliot, Jr. of Chicago, Illinois; Peggy and Stephen Johnson of Phoenix, Ariz. and Patty Ludwig of Phoenix.

Also surviving are nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren; a brother, Elias and Dorothy Zweibahmer of Cresco and two sisters, Catherine and Donald Huinker of Ossian, and lona Kubesh of Calmar.

Dorothy Ludwig was preceded in death by her husband, Francis Ludwig, Jan. 21, 1974; her parents; her step-mothers, Elizabeth Broghammer
Zweibahmer and Catherine Klisart Zweibahmer; a sister, Ruth Johanna in infancy; a brother and his wife, Cyril and Ruth Zweibahmer and a brother-in-law, Robert Kubesh.

Transcribed by an IA GenWeb Volunteer from obituaries found in the Howard-Winneshiek Genealogy Society Library, Cresco, Iowa.