Walter H. LEMKE

LEMKE, STRAATMAN, GEILSER, HRUBES, YANOSKI, BOHN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/28/2011 at 14:19:52

August 5, 1905 -- October 30, 1967

Klemme, IA -- Walter H. Lemke, 62, died Monday evening at Belmond Community Hospital. Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at Klemme Methodist Church. Born Aug. 5 1905, he was the son of Rhine and Minnie (Straatman) Lemke. He was a graduate of the University of Iowa and was married Oct. 22, 1936, to Myrtle Geilser. He had served as accountant at the Klemme Co-op Grain Company from 1950 until Sept. 1967. Surviving are his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Clarence (Joan) Hrubes, Britt; a son Earl W. Lemke, at Iowa State University at Ames; five grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. J. W. (Irene) Yanoski, Sioux City; Mrs. Carl (Meta) Bohn, Garner; a brother Reuben J. Lemke, Long Beach, Calif. He will be laid to rest in Ell Township Cemetery, Klemme, Iowa.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
November 1967