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 04	June 28
Rufus L Lenius (51) Tripoli	Mrs Sophia Kirchner (96) Denver
	Mrs Emma Notdorf (88) Tripoli
January 11	Harry Hillman Parson (49) Nashua
Mrs Mina Kelling (86) Denver
Mrs Ray (Mary) Krause - Sumner	July 05
J H Schwake (78) Waverly	Mrs Ben (Mary) Winks (84) Sumner
Mrs Jessie Curtis (86) Sumner	John Staack (69) Sumner
Otto G Gipper (51) Tripoli/Srawberry Point
Wm Bathke (74) Sumner	July 19
	Mrs August Albright (86) Waverly
January 25	George Adams Leech (86) Sumner
Fred L Diekmann (69) Readlyn
L W Matthias (59) Readlyn	August 02
William Betcher, Sr - Tripoli/Waukegan, IL	Mrs Ed (Dorothy) Donlon - Waverly
	Adolph Bergmann (55) Tripoli
February 08	Herman Klemp - Sumner
Herman Ganske (76) Readlyn
Mrs Emma Franklin (83) Tripoli/Waterloo	August 09
	Louis C Schmidt (79) Tripoli
February 15	Lt L E Murphy - Sumner
Mrs August Buls (65) Waverly
John J Fink (56) Tripoli	August 16
Mrs Milton (Selma) Soldwisch (36) Denver	Robert James McGowan (52) Frederika
Mrs Florence Shelton (60) Waterloo	Henry Piehl (80) Readlyn
John Felton - Sumner/St Paul MN	Henry Kuecker (70) Tripoli
	Edward J Barry (48) Sumner
February 22
Paul Patrick Gaede (23 months) Spring Fountain	August 23
R A Bonnell (60) Sumner	Mrs Mattie Annis (73) Plainfield
Paul Harold Garden - Sumner/Stanton NE	Mrs Carl Miller (68) Tripoli
Fay K Rowe - Summer
	September 06
March 01	Mrs Anna Berlin (76) Tripoli
Charles Ryan (67) Sumner/Oelwein	Henry Reinhart - Sumner
March 08	September 13
Eunice Mauce (50) Fort Dodge	Gustave Haas - Sumner
Mrs Anna Huebner (73) Tripoli	Mrs Sophie Dettmering (88) Westgate
Miss Florence Gronner (73) Sumner
Mrs W W Vine - Sumner/Rochester MN	September 20
	Herman Bathke (64) Sumner
March 15	Henry Kappmeyer (70) Siegel
Mrs Carl H (Lena) Mohling (46) Tripoli	Mrs Isabelle Olds (76) Sumner/Waterloo
William Henry Kueker (66) Tripoli	Mrs John (Amelia) Moeller (88) Tripoli
Miss Anna Dorothea Wilkens (71) Waverly	C E Dirksen - Sumner
Roy C Waterman (73) Waverly
Mrs Lucy Lease - Sumner/Sioux City	September 27
Mrs Elizabeth Margaret Geyer (88) Sumner	Frank Eastman (56) Cedar Falls
	Louis Buhr (65) Sumner
March 22	Mrs C C Dickman - Sumner/San Francisco CA
Stanley Stuber - Monona	Rev David Thompson - Sumner/Webster City
Mrs Arthur (Bertha) Bunger (58) Tripoli
Anton Michor (85) Waverly	October 04
	Emory Henry (94) Frederika
March 29
August Wille (74) Denver	October 11
Walter Bockhaus (34) Tripoli	Franklin Wilbur Sherman (70) Frederika
Robert Clark Sorg (35) Tripoli	Mrs Emma Bockhaus - Frederika
	Wm Beaumont (87) Sumner
April 05	Ernest Duhrkopf (84) Sumner
Mrs C L (Carrie) McCumber (82) Tripoli	Mrs Henry Neverman - Sumner
	Mrs Henry Strumpell (80) Sumner
April 19
W H Boedecker (70) Readlyn	October 18
Mrs Augusta Steinberg (87) Denver	Louisa Tegtmeier (72) Tripoli
Wm C Tegtmeier (66) Buck Creek/Dunlap IL	Homer Miehe - Oelwein
	Mrs Homer Miehe (29) Oelwein
April 26
Henry F Schellhorn (74) Grove Hill	October 25
	Henry Leistikow (81) Readlyn
May 03
Frank Schwake (72) Sumner	November 08
Arthur A Geweke (61) Waverly	William Ernest Harmening (64) Tripoli
Clifford Meyer (36) Westgate	Fred H Buhr (72) Sumner
Fred Woodworth - Sumner/Great Falls MT	Mrs Julius A Foelske (58) Denver
May 10	November 15
Charles Koschmeder (81) Readlyn	Ernest Kehe (60) Denver
	John Henry Griese (74) Denver
May 19	Will Eichmann (60) Sumner
R W Kohagen (62) Spring Fountain	Christ Everding (71) Readlyn
Dr C H Graening (78) Waverly	Cpl Gordon Mooney - Horton
	Mrs Ida Wolfgram (75) Sumner
May 31
Mrs Rosa Maria Wettengel - Crane Creek	November 22
Mrs Bertha Westendorf - Grove Hill	Miss Delores Schweer (16) Tripoli
Harry W Reeve (67) Sumner	Mrs Gerald Enloe (21) Sumner/Colfax
Mrs Caroline Haag - Sumner	Theodore Schwerin (46) Sumner
	Henry Segebarth (57) Klinger/Waterloo
June 07	Christ Everding (71) Readlyn
William Miller (63) Denver	Mrs Nellie Hobbs (70) Tripoli/Guthrie Center
Adelbert W Bravener (82) Frederika
Mrs Rose Vogt - Loyal WI	November 29
James Blanch - Sumner	Mrs H W (Dorothy) Clasen (78) Cedar Falls
Mrs Belle Hunt (82) Sumner
	December 06
June 14	John Barbknecht (87) Frederika
Herman Wittkop (60) Tripoli	Mrs L B Trusty - Ionia
Fred P Hagemann (80) Waverly	Herman Arndt (72) Sumner
Herman Nuss - Sumner
Miss Henrietta Meier (86) Sumner	December 13
Daughter Schwake (16 months) - Buck Creek	Jennifer Ann Juel (2) Sumner
	C L Edwards (74) Sumner
June 21
Herman Carl Wittkop - Tripoli	December 20
William F Meyerhoff (72) Readlyn	Chris Mooney (61) Pinhook
Mrs Emma Notdorf (88) Tripoli
Janola Jean Schwake (16 months) - Buck Creek	December 27
	Orville Tonne (10) Tripoli
	August C Hoppenworth (68) Waverly

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