Minnie Bohle 1885 - 1959

BOHLE, KNAACK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/16/2021 at 16:42:38

Sioux City Journal
20 March 1959

Mrs. Fritz Bohle, 73, a longtime resident of the Rock Branch community near Correctionville, died Thursday at a Sioux City hospital after an illness of several months.

Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Saturday at Rock Branch Methodist church with Rev. Merlin Davies officiating. Burial will be in Rock Branch cemetery under direction of the Dickinson funeral home.

Mrs. Bohle was born July 5, 1885, near Walnut, Ia. She went with her parents to the Holstein community and later moved to the Rock Branch area. Her husband, Fritz, well known farmer died in October 1957.

Survivors are a son, Willie of Correctionville: four daughter, Mrs. Elsie Wilcox and Mrs. Irma Susie, both of Correctionville, Mrs. Irene Held of Lawton, and Mrs. Ruby Gernhart of Kingsley; a sister, Mrs. August Wieck of Correctionville, three brothers, William and Fred Knaack both of Correctionville and V. F. Knaack of Pierson, and 19 grandchildren.