Katharina J. Koster

KOSTER, JACOBSEN, STEFFEN, SUHR, LAMAAK, GOTTO, REHSE

Posted By: Pamela Wagler (email)
Date: 4/1/2009 at 18:01:34

(Not sure of newspaper source.)

Mrs. Wm. Koster of Anthon Dies (1949)

Funeral services were held 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at St. Paul's Lutheran church, Midway, for Mrs. Katherina Johanna Koster, 73, a resident of Anthon the past 13 years. Mrs. Koster died Friday at her home after an illness of three months.

Rev. E. F. Rehwaldt conducted the service. Three songs, Jesus Lover of My Soul; Asleep in Jesus and Jerusalem, Thou City Fair and High, were sung with Mrs. Marvin Jansen as organist.

Members of the flower committee were Mrs. Jens Petersen and Mrs. Martin Jansen.

Burial was in the Midway cemetery under the direction of the Hudgel funeral home of Anthon.

Mrs. Koster was born May 3, 1880, at Fehsholm, Germany. She came to the United States and Jones county, Ia., in 1890 with her parents. In 1896 she moved to Woodbury county.

November 27, 1897, she was married to William Koster at Midway and they lived in the Midway area until 1941 when they retired and moved to Anthon. Last November they celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary.

Mrs. Koster had been a member of St. Paul's church at Midway since she came to this community.

Survivors are the widower; four sons, Edwin of Anthon, Henry of Correctionville, Walter of Pierson and William of Battle Creek; five daughters, Mrs. Augusta Hamann of Galveston, Tex., Mrs. Hans Suhr of Anthon, Mrs. Joe Gotto of Correctionville; Eldora Koster of Anthon, and Mrs. Hans Lamaak of Denison. Two children died in infancy.

Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Christina Steffen of White Lake, S.D., and Mrs. Johanna Rehse of Arthur, and one brother, Peter Jacobsen of Schleswig; 20 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.