Lubbe ALBERS

ALBERS, WIENTJES, HOLLATZ, RUEBEN, PRINGNITZ, LAUSTER, CORNELIUS, ENGELKES, CLARK, BUSS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/8/2010 at 18:59:00

Belmond Independent, Iowa
July 3, 2001

Lubbe Albers, 92, of Clear Lake died Tuesday, June 26, 2001 at the Oakwood Care Center, Clear Lake. Funeral services were held Friday, June 29, at St. John's Lutheran Church, Garner, with Rev. Carl Hedberg officiating. Interment was in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City.

Lubbe Albers, son of George N., Sr. and Evawina (Wientjes) Albers, was born December 28, 1908, at the Albers home near Klemme. He was baptized and confirmed in the Klemme Immanuel Reformed United Church of Christ and attended Klemme High School. On February 19, 1939, he married Edna Hollatz at St. John's Lutheran Church in Garner. Lubbe enjoyed farming, taking great pride in feeding cattle. They farmed south of Ventura until 1974 when they retired and moved to Clear Lake. He enjoyed spending time with family and was an Iowa Hawkeye fan. His hobbies were fishing, hunting and bowling. In 1978, he was inducted into the Clear Lake Bowler's Hall of Fame.

Preceding him in death are his parents; four brothers: John Albers, Ted Albers, George Albers and Menno Albers; four sisters, Jennie Rueben, Carrie Pringnitz, Elsina Lauster, and Helen Cornelius. Survivors include his wife, Edna; their daughter and son-in-law, Phyllis and Jim Engelkes, Papillion, NE; two granddaughters: Linda Engelkes of Burnsville, MN and Lesli Clark and her husband, Bill, of Urbandale, two great granddaughters: Manda and Sidney Clark of Urbandale; and one sister, Winnie Buss of Belmond.