Peter Keitges 1839 - 1920

KEITGES, MACK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen
Date: 9/30/2023 at 23:31:35

Ida County Pioneer
24 March 1920

Peter Keitges is a very sick man at his home in the west part of town, the result of a bad case of pneumonia. He has been unable to take but little
nourishment for better than a week past and while the immediate family and relatives are holding out for the best, it is thought that he cannot recover. All of the children have been called home and are now at the bedside. Those from a distance are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Neiman and children, Misses Agnes and Mary, John and Mathew, all of Sioux City, Mrs. Fred Elskamp of Fulda, Minn., and Sister Boromea of Hospers. As the venerable gentleman is in his eighty-first year the outlook is very unfavorable.

Ida County Pioneer
31 March 1920

Peter Keitges was born in Luxenburg, Germany on August 1, 1839 and died March 22, 1920, age 80 years, 8 months and 22 days. He came to the United States in 1865 and settled in eastern Iowa then went from there to Nebraska and later coming to Danbury settling here in 1885. He was joined in the hold bonds of wedlock to Josephine Mack in July, 1889, Rev. Father Meagher performing the ceremony, and they have made Danbury their continuous residence since. The union was blessed with ten children, all of whom are living and were at the home during the last moments of the father on this earth, in addition the good wife is left to mourn his loss. The children are: Mrs. Flamming, Sister Baromea, Mrs. Neiman, Agnes, Mrs. Kueny, Mary Mrs. Eiskamp, Mathew, John and Bebiana. In addition to this he leaves six grandchildren.