Harm BOECKHOLT

BOECKHOLT, HELMERS, RIGGLE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/30/2010 at 23:07:46

6 April 1880 -- 10 December 1936

December 15, 1936
Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral of Boekholt Is Held at Kanawha

KANAWHA—Funeral services were held for Harm Boekholt, 56, Monday afternoon at the Christian Reformed church with the Rev. D. H. Plesscher officiating. Burial was made in the Kanawha cemetery. Mr. Boekholt died Thursday afternoon at his home in Kanawha after a severe attack of pneumonia. Harm Boekholt was born April 3, 1880, in Bundehamrich, Ostfriesland, Germany. In the past 20 years he worked on the Kanawha section of the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad. Surviving are his wife, three children, Mrs. John Helmers of Titonka; Harm of Kanawha and Mrs. John Riggle of Corwith; four brothers, William and Alerk of Herman, Minn.; Anton of Buffalo Center and Henry of Titonka and five grandchildren. His parents, two brothers and a sister preceded him in death.