Blumhagen, Esther Ida Anna (Bugenhagen) -- 1898 - 1982

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Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 7/5/2004 at 14:41:30

Esther Blumhagen

Funeral services for Esther I. Blumhagen were held Monday, July 26 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Postville. Rev. Julius L. Peterson officiated. The Schutte Funeral Service of Postville was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in the Postville Cemetery.

Esther Ida Anna Blumhagen, daughter of William Carl and Wilhelmina Louisa (Meyer) Bugenhagen, was born Nov. 4, 1898 near Luana, Iowa. She died July 22, 1982 at the Good Samaritan Center in Postville.

She was baptized Dec. 18, 1898 and confirmed March 16, 1913, both at St. John Lutheran Church in Luana. She attended the Luana School. On March 16, 1921 she was married to Carl Blumhagen at the home of her parents. To this union a son was born. They farmed near Ossian for 18 years after which they moved to a farm south of Postville and for the last two years she had lived in town.

She is preceded in death by her parents and her husband, who died in 1967.

Surviving are a son, Leon of Postville, four grandchildren, Alan, Anne, Audrey and Adrian, one great grandson, three brothers, Edwin Bugenhagen of Monona, and William and Walter Bugenhagen, both of Luana, two sisters, Mrs. Arthur (Irene) Harnack of Froelich and Mrs. Adolf (Mabel) Nielsen of Luana.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping, hand dated 1982, from my mother's obituary collection.

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