Clara Ida (Millinghausen) PESCH

PESCH, MILLINGHAUSEN, MELLINGHAUSEN, POESCH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/28/2007 at 14:34:03

12 March 1942
Guttenberg Press, Iowa

PESCH RITES AT CLAYTON ON SATURDAY

Native of Germany Is Taken by Death Last Week

HERE IN 1857

Clayton - Funeral services were held Saturday, March 7, for Mrs. Clara Ida Pesch, for many years a resident of this community. Mrs. Pesch died on March 4. The services were at the Peace Lutheran church in Clayton in charge of Rev. William F. Pallbearers for the service were Charles W. Blake, William Blake, Arthur Adams, Frank Gibbs, Clarence Frey [Frye] and Ed Pieper.

Born as Clara Ida Mellinghausen [Millinghausen] on May 30, 1857, she was a native of Remscheid Bei Eberfeld, Germany. She came to this country at the age of three months and had made this community her home since that time. On July 2, 1879, she was married to Henry Frederick Pesch at Clayton and to this union four children were born. Mr. Pesch died in 1919.

Three Children Survive

Mrs. Pesch is survived by three children, George of Rock Island, Illinois; Walter of McGregor; and Herbert of Rowan. She also is survived by a brother, August, of Lindsay, California, and sister, Amelia, of Clayton, and nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren. A daughter, Pauline, died April 28, 1929, and a brother, Herman, died in San La Pedro, California in 1939.