Josephine Marie (Carpenter) KRIEGER

KRIEGER, CARPENTER, RUTLEDGE, GOWDY, LUNDY, HELMKE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/14/2008 at 11:31:00

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa
January 21, 1952

Mrs. Krieger, 75, Dies in City

Mrs. Adolph Krieger, 75, died at 10:45 p.m. Sunday [January 20, 1952] at her home, 637 Boone street. She had been in failing health the past year and a half, but her death last evening was very sudden. Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic church with the Rev. Fr. D. A. Gorman officiating and with burial in Catholic cemetery. Rosary will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Foster funeral home.

Josephine Marie Carpenter, daughter of John and Mary Carpenter, was born Dec. 17, 1876 in France. She was reared and educated in France and then came with her mother to America, landing in New York City on her 19th birthday. Her father and a brother were already in America, living on a farm near Somonauk, Ill., and the family were reunited there. She was united in marriage Feb. 4, 1896 to Adolph Krieger. Mr. and Mrs. Krieger started housekeeping on a farm near Somonauk, farming in Illinois until 1904, then coming to Iowa and locating on a farm in Wright county north of Blairsburg. In 1929 they retired and moved into Webster City to the home they had purchased at 637 Boone street, their home since. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1946 at their home.

Mrs. Krieger is survived by her husband, one son and one daughter: Adolph Krieger, Jr., of Blairsburg and Mrs. Fred H. (Emma) Rutledge of Webster City; four grandchildren, Mrs. Jack (Lorraine) Gowdy of Williams, Mrs. Harold (Marie) Lundy of Webster City, Pfc. Francis Krieger stationed in Germany and Mrs. Junior (Dorothy) Helmke of Swea City; five great-grandchildren, Gregory and Patricia Gowdy, Michael and Douglas Helmke and Kenneth Wayne Lundy. She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother and one sister. She was a member of the Royal Neighbors and also of the Rosary society of St. Thomas Aquinas church.

Mrs. Krieger was always a friendly, neighborly woman whose main interest in life where her home, family and church. As long as her health permitted she was always active in church work wherever needed.