Laura Schwinn 1866 - 1938

SCHWINN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/15/2014 at 22:02:27

Sioux City Journal
24 December 1938

Mrs. Laura Schwinn, 72, widow of John Schwinn, pioneer Sioux City grocer who died several years ago, died Saturday in her home, 311 Perry.

Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 2 p. m. in Trinity Lutheran church with Rev. A. B. Schwertz officiating. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery under direction of the O'Toole-Gunn funeral home.

Mrs. Schwinn was born in 1866 and reared in Sioux City. She was a member of the Rebekahs, Girls of '68, Women's Relief corps and Trinity Lutheran church.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. A. F. Johnson and Mrs. J. E. Bellinger, both of Sioux City; a brother, Chris Doss of Denver, Colo., and two sisters, Miss Christine Doss of Sioux City and Mrs. Charles Beckford of St. Paul.