Meaning of notations:

(N) - not a complete obit - similar to a death notice, usually establishing some type of tie to the local area
Obit - usually includes birth, relatives, circumstances of death
Article - usually a newsworthy item about the circumstances of death
Town/town & state - often the local area of origin and the area they died. Ex. - Frederika/Sioux Falls, SD

My thanks to Elvira Hebell for transcribing and contributing this index. For copies ($2.00 each) please email her.

January 1	July 16
Michael Collins (88) Pinhook/Baxter, IA	Miss Pearl Ruth Fortsch - Sumner
Mrs Minna Neuendorf - Tripoli	Lou Schinnert - Tripoli/Zumbrota, MN
Mrs May Hallett (80) Tripoli/Sioux City	Carl F Black - Waverly
Mrs Carl C (Minnie) Schlichting (65) Tripoli	Mrs Capitola Lowe - Waverly
Mrs Herman Wasserfort (85) Denver
Henry Joens (75) Waverly	July 23
	Herman W Schrader - Denver
January 8	Harvey Stuffelbeam (84) Waverly
Mrs Bertha Tiedt - Sumner	Mrs Robert (Vera) McGowan (47) Waverly
Emil Moehlis - Sumner	Fred Haefner - Waverly
Walter Bieman - Frederika	Mrs Herman Meier - Denver
H Wm Oltrogge (83) Readlyn
Thomas W Mason (83) Waterloo	July 30
	Mrs Robert (Vera) McGowan (47) Waverly
January 15
Mrs Caroline Nolting (78) Denver	August 6
Mrs Nellie Sullivan (78) Pinhook	William Fred Hahn (70) Frederika
Irwin J Franklin - Waverly	Joachim Bahlmann (88) Tripoli
Arthur R Ingersoll - Plainfield	A W Leitzinger - Sumner/Galena, IL
Mr Meier - Sumner/Sauk Center, MN	Mrs Bertha Pagel (83) Sumner
January 22	August 13
Jimmie Bergmann (14 months) Waverly	Charles Edward Destival - Sumner
Mrs Jones - Sumner/Pittstown, NJ
George Lauterbach - Sumner	August 20
Mrs Herman Kehe - Denver/Redwood City, CA	Mrs Mathilda Biermann (73) Tripoli
	W W Kehe (63) Readlyn
January 29	Andrew J Beckage (51) Waverly
Herman Kerssen (69) Fredericksburg	Miss Jeanine Yarger (15 months) Waverly
Mrs O O Ladwig - Sumner/Hampton
George E Reed - Sumner/Detroit, MI	August 27
	John Wendt (78) Frederika
February 5	Elizabeth Heralda Mooney (68) Waverly
Henry J Kasemeier (68) Buck Creek	Chas Beu (88) Sumner
Don Beebe (25) Waverly
Ludwig Kalso (84) Tripoli	September 3
Claude Tibbitts - Sumner	Nicholas Kern (91) Janesville/Waterloo
Mrs Glenn Hunt - Fredericksburg	Dr T J Becker (42) Waverly
Mrs Mary Meighan (89) Sumner/New Hampton	Mrs Caroline Schoof (83) Waverly
	Harry Copenhaver (57) Nashua
February 12	William Sell (70) Sumner
Albert Lincoln "Al" Jacobson (71) Tripoli	Frank Rice (92) Frederika
Gerald Grannemann - Sumner
Miss Nanny Grossmann (78) Waverly	September 10
	Albert Buchholz (66) Tripoli
February 19	Walter Baumgartner - Sumner/Albert Lea, MN
Miss Emilie Borchert (70) Tripoli
Mrs F W (Jennie) Meier (87) Tripoli	September 17
	Edward Meswarb (69) Sumner
February 26	Fred Wehling (68) Readlyn
Mrs Christ (Wilhelmina) Winning (77) Tripoli	Carl M Kent (68) Sumner
March 5	September 24
Mrs H H (Anna) Stumme (64) Readlyn	Mrs Katherine Flynn - Waverly
Louis Cook - Sumner/Los Angeles, CA	Mrs Katherine McCue - Sumner
	Leo Staack - Sumner/St Petersburg, FL
March 12	James Ragsdale (32) Janesville
Louise Rohle (69) Denver
Elmer M Reeves - Waverly	October 1
John Westendorf - Sumner	D V McLean (67) Waverly/Marshalltown
Mrs Cora Carey (81) Waverly	Miss Marjory Bratton (3) Waverly
Louis C Baker (78) Waverly	Lester G Meyer (44) Waverly
Ralph Stufflebeam (33) Waverly	Leo Staack - Sumner/St Petersburg, FL
George Anderson (46) Waverly
	October 8
March 19	Mrs Louisa Frost (74) Sumner
Mrs Anna Schumacher (75) Denver	Anson Hatch - Sumner
Mrs Henry Buenneke - Denver	Rev Fr T R Collins (66) Waverly
W J Siefkes (44) Waverly
	October 15
March 26	Ferd Wolfgram (65) Sumner
Mrs Carl (Dorothea) Schwer (84) Tripoli	Will O'Day (79) Pinhook
Mrs W M Carr (59) Waverly	Hermann H Niemann - Sumner
Mrs Lee Heightshoe- Waverly/Okaton, SD	J P Kangley - Sumner/Pasadena, CA
Mrs Ed Schoephoerster - Sumner
	October 22
April 2	Dr Paul E Saxer (74) Fredericksburg/Bethany, MO
Harold Garland - Tripoli	John Stromer (78) Tripoli
Wm H Roselius - Waverly	Emma Oltrogge (51) Waverly
Jack Terry (62) Waverly	Mrs Mary Thies (75) Readlyn
Mrs Grace Madge Roberts - Sumner	Robert A Aschbrenner (infant) Bremer
	Mrs Fred Winkelmann (86) Waverly
April 9	Catherine Jane Ferris (77) Fredericksburg
William Heideman (87) Tripoli
Miss Estella Pries (40) Tripoli	October 29
Mrs Elizabeth Jahnsen - Frederika	Viola Johnston (79) Frederika
Paul Gordon (39) Waverly	Charles Hoth - Sumner
Mrs Elmer (Elsie) Tiedt - Sumner	George Figenbaum - Sumner
John Richmann (79) Readlyn	Herman Broderson (73) Waverly
April 16	November 5
Mrs C F (Emma) Paul (69) Denver	Randolph Buhr - Waterloo
Mrs Wm Marsh - Sumner	Mrs Mary Mundfrom - Nashua
	John Koenig (84) Waverly
April 23	Mrs William Strottmann - Waverly
Herman Wasserfort (92) Denver	Mrs Emma Kenney (83) Waverly
Mrs Louis (Bertha) Hunemuller - Tripoli/Lisbon,ND	Miss Viola Johnston (79) Frederika
Henry H Schmidt (69) Tripoli	Ervin D Heidemann (21) Denver
Mrs Wm (Helen) Hughes - Sumner
Alphus Meyers - Waverly	November 12
Miss Annie L Hine (80) Sumner/Peoria, IL	Mrs August G (Sophie) Meyer (66) Tripoli
	George Hammetter (65) Sumner
April 30	Fred Robinson (84) Denver
George C Hazlett (79) Riceville	Emma Arthur (70) Tripoli
Mrs Arthur Pothast (49) Waverly	Rev Siegfried Hermann Siefkes (81) Waverly
Fred H Hunemuller (77) Readlyn	Mrs Herman (May) Buhr - Sumner
Mrs Clara Smith - Sumner/Nashville, TN
Linn Carroll - Sumner/Waterloo	November 19
Karl Axburg - Pinhook/Macon, MO	Mrs Henry (Mina) Moeller - Tripoli
Frank A Holloway - Waverly	Hermann W Harms (59) Waverly
	Mrs Elsie Sorge (39) Sumner
May 7	Miss Donna Ehlert (27) Sumner
Mrs Ernest (Lillian) Haase (55) Tripoli	Clarence Winning (37) Sumner
Mrs Hattie Thies (87) Waverly	Leonard Diedrich (29) Sumner
Mrs Pauline Guergens (67) Waverly	Virgil Trewin (36) Sumner
Henry Volker (68) Sumner	Mabel Frahm (18) Sumner
J H Wittenburg - Sumner/New Hampton	George Hammetter (65) Sumner
Friedrich Heinrich Johan Hunemuller (77) Tripoli
	November 26
May 14	Arthur Sauerbry (47) Waverly
Ernest Fink,Sr (87) Tripoli/Lodi,CA	Grant E Becker (56) Waverly
Donald Luick Brooks (48) Waverly	Mrs William H Babcock (78) Waverly
Otto Carl Frederick Hoth (64) Sumner	Calvin Brandenburg - Tripoli/Greene
	Herman Bany (51) Tripoli
May 21, 2008	Sophie Schweer (87) Denver
Frank Mirs - Sumner
Mrs Mamie Pitcher (85) Waverly	December 3
Lloyd G Upham (61) Fredericksburg	Fred C Schwem (76) Tripoli
	Arthur Sauerbry (47) Waverly
June 4	Roy Duvall Shepherd - Waverly
Mrs Anna Marie Rosenow - Sumner	Mrs Viola Gritzner - Sumner/Marion
Mrs F L Diekmann (68) Readlyn	George Smith -Tripoli/Waterloo
June 11	December 10
Rudolph Haar, Sr (78) Denver	Fred C Schwem (76) Tripoli
Arthur Bratton (41) Waverly	Mrs Wilhelmina Buls (85) Tripoli
	Hugh McElroy - Waverly/Hastings,Nebraska
June 18	Mrs Roland Schulze - Waverly/Des Moines
Miss Mary E Selbig (84) Waverly	W F Wood - Sumner
June 25	December 17
F H Engel - Sumner	Rev John J Leen - Sumner
Joseph Drexler - Waverly
Herman H Bahe (60) Readlyn	December 24
Mrs Anna Dallenbach - Sumner	Herald F Wood - Sumner
Mrs A Ottersberg - Waverly	Otto Haag - Sumner/Des Moines
July 2	December 31
Miss Cordelia Mitchell (77) Waverly/Vinton	Rev Emil Stech - Tripoli/Faribault, MN
	Adam Faust (83) Denver
	Rudy E Minger (55) Tripoli/Forest Lawn, CA
	Mrs Emma Kasemeier - Sumner

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