Marie C Wohlers 1903-1997

WOHLERS PETERSEN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/16/2011 at 20:57:16

Sioux City Journal
28 Sept 1997

Danbury, Iowa—Marie C. Wohlers, 94, of Danbury, Iowa, died Thursday, Sept. 25, 1997, at Willow Dale Nursing Home in Battle Creek, Iowa.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Battle Creek, with the Rev. Daniel Torkelson officiating. Burial will be in Liston Township Cemetery in Danbury.

Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today with a prayer service at 7:30 p.m. at the Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton, Iowa.

Mrs. Wohlers was born March 4, 1903 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the daughter of Kastus and Kristina Petersen. She was a Lutheran.

She worked as a telephone operator in Council Bluffs.

She married Harry Henry Wohlers on Jan. 18, 1928 in Council Bluffs. The couple resided and farmed near Missouri Valley, Iowa until March of 1938, when they moved northwest of Danbury. They continued farming until 1961 when they retired and moved into Danbury. He died Dec. 1, 1971.

She was talented in designing and sewing clothing and enjoyed sewing for others.

Survivors include a son, Donald Wohlers of Danbury; a daughter and her husband, Ardis and Bob Ackerson of Fairfield Bay, Ark.: two grandsons, David and Mark Ackerson: and two great-grandchildren, Brian and April.

She was preceded in death by two infant sons, Harry Jr. and Harley: a brother and a sister.