BLUMHAGEN, Elda Anna Flora --- 1916-2003

SCHUTTE, BLUMHAGEN, MEYER, BUGENHAGEN

Posted By: IA GenWeb Volunteer
Date: 12/31/2012 at 16:26:45

Elda Blumhagen

A funeral service for Elda Blumhagen was held Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 2 p.m. at the Schutte Funeral Home in Postville. The Rev. Dave L. Lenth officiated. Casket bearers were Dennis, Gary, Daniel, David and Brian Blumhagen and Karel Rawson. Burial was in the Bloomfield Cemetery at rural Castalia, Iowa.

Elda Anna Flora Blumhagen, the daughter of Henry F. and Anna (Schutte) Blumhagen, was born December 31, 1916, in Bloomfield Township, Winneshiek County. She passed away Monday, December 29, 2003 in the Ossian Senior Hospice at Ossian, Iowa. She had reached the age of 86 years, 11 months, and 28 days.

She was baptized into the Lutheran faith as an infant and confirmed in the Zion Lutheran Church at Castalia, Iowa. Elda attended the Bloomfield School No. 10. She studied to receive her GED certificate after working for several years.

Elda was employed at Monsky's General Store in Castalia, Wapsie Produce and Brown's Electric in Decorah, and at the Scenic Ridge Telephone Company in Ossian which was purchased by Ace Telephone Company, Houston, MN. Elda also worked on the farm, raised strawberries, and took care of her brother, Henry.

She lived in Bloomfield Township all of her life and then became a resident of the Ossian Senior Hospice on April 11, 2002.

She is preceded in death by her parents, 7 brothers, Carl, Louis, George, Arno, Lloyd, Alvin, and Henry, and 3 sisters, Mabel Meyer, Elsie Meyer, and Minnie Bugenhagen.

Surviving is a sister-in-law, Agnes Blumhagen of Castalia, and many nephews and nieces.

Elda was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church in Castalia.

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

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