Schutta, John Carl -- 1887 - 1975

HOTH, SCHUTTA, EWING

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 7/7/2004 at 15:11:29

John Carl Schutta
 
Funeral services were held Monday, February 3, 1975, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville, for John Schutta, who died January 31, 1975 at Community Memorial Hospital in Postville. The Rev. Norman Ullestad officiated. Interment was in the Frankville Cemetery.

Named John Carl Schutta, he was born on a farm near Gunder on May 1, 1887, the son of Frederich and Marie Hoth Schutta. He was baptized into St. Paul Lutheran Church, Monona on June 19, 1887 and was confirmed into St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville on March 23, 1902 where he remained a member.

On October 7, 1915 he was united in marriage to Ellen Ewing. They had one child.

He farmed near Frankville, then retired to Frankville where he lived many years. He had been a resident of the Good Samaritan Center for five years.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife in 1963; his two brothers, Herman and Will; a half-sister, Hannah Gipp and half-brother, Charles Hoth.

Survivors include his nieces, nephews, two sisters-in-law and a brother-in-law.

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