Ida Bertha (Lisse) KIRCHGATTER

KIRCHGATTER, LISSE, MAHER, DIETRICH, GRAPP, RUNGE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/9/2010 at 21:10:20

March 1, 1872 -- February 25, 1944

OLD NORTH IOWA RESIDENT DIES

Hold Rites Monday for Mrs. A. Kirchgatter, 72

NORA SPRINGS, IOWA — Funeral service were to be held in St. Luke's American Lutheran Church at Nora Springs Monday afternoon for Mrs. August Kirchgatter 72, who died shortly before midnight Friday at the state hospital in Independence. The pastor, the Rev. W. G. Pfeffer, officiated at the rites at the church. Burial was in the Lutheran Cemetery at Grafton, Worth county, Iowa.

Mrs. Kirchgatter was taken ill early last summer. She was taken to Independence Nov. 13. She was born in Germany March 1, 1872, one of a family of five brothers and four sisters. She came to the United States with her parents in 1880, when she was eight years of age. The family came directly to Iowa, settling on a farm near Carpenter. She lived on the same farm until her marriage to August Kirchgatter December 11, 1890, at Corwith.

Mr. and Mrs. Kirchgatter farmed near Corwith for about ten years and then moved to Grafton where they lived for 19 years. They then resided in Mason City until 1932, when they moved to Nora Springs and lived her for the past 12 years. Mrs. Kirchgatter was a lifelong member of the Lutheran church.

Survivors include her husband, three sisters, Mrs. Martha Maher of St. Paul, Mrs. Emma Dietrich of Toeterville, and Mrs. Minnie Grapp of St. Paul; two brothers Adolph and Albert Kirchgatter both of Carpenter; and the Kirchgatter's five children, Mrs. Max Runge of St. Ansgar, Frank Kirchgatter of Carpenter, Will Kirchgatter, of Iowa Falls, Leo Kirchgatter of Grafton and Emil Kirchgatter of Carpenter.

Mason City Globe-Gazette, Iowa
February 28, 1944