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.

4 January 7 June
Mathilda Steidler - Readlyn - (N) Julius E. Foelske - Denver - obit
Minor Nerge - Tripoli/Little Falls, MN - obit Mrs. Olinda (Elmer) Kroblin (nee Rasche) - Sumner - obit
Mrs. Nellie (Walter) Koenig (nee Schmidt) - Sumner/Red Wing, MN - obit  
Mrs. Eva (Willliam) McCormack (nee Adams) - Sumner - obit 14 June
  Mrs. Sophia (August) Nuss (nee Wolff) - Sumner - obit
11 January  
Mrs. Mathilda Steidler - Readlyn - obit 21 June
R.C. Gaard - Waverly - obit & article Arnold W. Boevers - Tripoli/Waverly - obit & article
Mrs. Anna (Albert) Buchholz (nee Kreinke) - Tripolil - obit Robert Reif - Sumner - obit
Harold Rundle - Sumner/Waterloo - obit  
  28 June
25 January Mrs. Sophia (Fred) Volker (nee Zell) - Sumner - obit
William L. Meadows - Plainfield - (N) & article  
Herman Peters - Readlyn - (N) 5 July
Donald Pockels DTripoli/Philadelphia, PA - obit Henry F. Krueger - Denver - obit
Mrs. Marjorie (Murray) Gissell (nee Curtis) - Sumner - obit Sandra Trout (13y)- Sumner - obit & article
  Mrs. Lena (Emil) Grahlmann (nee Reisner) - Sumner - obit
1 February  
Walter Barnes - Tripoli/Mechanicsville - obit 12 July
Infant dau. of Orville Hoppenworth - (N) Mrs. Hilda Biermann (John) Henning (nee Neuendorf) - Tripoli - obit
Mrs. Lydia (Fred) Niemann (nee Winning) - Sumner - obit  
Donald C. Pockels - Lansdowne, PA - obit 19 July
  Lorenz E. Doepke - Denver - obit
8 February Charles Dilley - Denver - obit
Mrs. Sarah Bruns (G.W.) Bredow (nee Nevermann) - Denver - obit Mrs. Minnie Steege - Denver - (N)
Otto Bredow - Waverly - (N) Louisa Erhardt - Readlyn - (N)
Mrs. Christ Meier (nee Moeller) - Tripoli - obit Herman Oltrogge - Readlyn - obit
Warren Jenske - Sumner - obit Edwin Gaede - Sumner - obit
Mrs. Marjory Wilharm (nee Smith) - Sumner - obit  
  26 July
15 February Urban Haag - Sumner - obit
Mrs. Bertha Propp - Waverly - obit Mrs. Minnie (Henry) Steege (nee Becker) - Denver - obit
Walter Steward Sr. - Oelwein - obit  
Mrs. Ruby (Richard) Munger - Sumner - obit 2 August
Mrs. Mary (Fred) Niemann (nee Kiehn) - Sumner - obit George Koehler - Sumner - obit
Mrs. Martha (Louis) Burt (nee Niemann) - Sumner - obit  
  9 August
22 February Mrs. John Speer - LeRoy MN - (N)
J.F. Rathe - Tripoli - obit  
Mrs. Anna (Frank) Hale - Tripoli - obit 16 August
Mrs.Dorothea (Christ) Meier (nee Moeller) - Tripoli - obit Mrs. Mary (Charles) Vorhees (nee Groth) - Sumner - obit
   
1 March 23 August
Howard Flanscha - Fredericksburg - obit & article Ida W.(Martin) Sievers - Tripoli - obit
Mrs. Viola (Frederick) Guenther (nee Reimer) - Sumner - obit  
J.F. Rathe - Readlyn - obit 30 August
  Mrs. Anna (Henry) Bock (nee Hoepfner) - Sumner - obit
8 March Louis Schoephoester - Sumner - obit
Mrs. Louise (August) Bockhaus (nee Bergman) - Frederika - obit  
Mrs. Sophia (Fred) Block (nee Blasberg) - Tripoli - obit 6 September
Mrs. Mathilda (Rev. August) Beckman - Sumner/Cedar Falls - obit Rev. Emmanuel Fuchs - Tripoli - obit
John R. Hartung - Denver - obit  
  13 September
15 March John Necker - Tripoli - obit
Mrs. Frieda (William) Oehlschlager - Tripoli - obit Inf. son of Jerry Tiedt - Waterloo - (N)
William Bany - Tripoli - obit Mrs. Martha (Herman H.) Warnke (nee Schult) - Sumner - obit
Roy C. Wells - Sumner/Alamagordo, AZ - obit Mrs. Orin Armentrout Sewell - Maynard - obit
Herman Bock - Sumner/Minneapolis - obit Carl Schoeppe - Sumner/Strawberry Point - obit
   
22 March 20 September
Rosa Propp (nee Peters) - Tripoli (N) Waldo Gleason - Denver - obit
Carolyn (inf. dau. of Kenneth) Latwesen - Waterloo - (N)  
Mrs. Myrtle (George) Bronn (nee Voorhees) - Sumner - obit 27 September
Samuel J. Longfellow - Waterloo - (N) John Albrecht Sr. - Frederika - (N)
Edwin Roder - Sumner/Waverly - obit  
  4 October
29 March William Goodenbour - Waterloo - (N)
Mrs. Albert Jahnke - Tripoli - (N) John Henry Albrecht - Frederika - obit
Louis Rohrssen - Tripoli - obit  
George Diercks - Readlyn - obit 11 October
Mrs. Minnie (F.F.) Moeller - Artesian - obit Samuel H. Page - Sumner - obit
Theodore J. Wedemeier - Buck Creek - obit Fred Mohlis - Sumner - obit
Mrs. Zatha I. (William) Berger (nee Richards) - Sumner - obit Sam Shales - Sumner/San Bernadino, CA - obit
   
5 April 18 October
Will H. Biermann - Tripoli - obit Esther (Raymond) Buchanan (nee Holm) - Tripoli/Eugene, OR - obit
George F. Diercks - Readlyn - obit Henry Bathke - Sumner/Charles City - obit
Herman Niewoehner - Sumner - obit Clarence Niemann - Sumner - obit
Rose McGhan - Sumner/Dubuque - obit Mrs. Elsie (Arthur) Aschbrenner - Sumner - obit
Henry Bock - Sumner - obit  
  25 October
12 April Esther (Gaylord) Johnson (nee Meier) - Tripoli/Frederika - obit
William Biermann - Tripoli - obit William H. Meier - Tripoli/Baton Rouge, LA - obit
  Mrs. Doris (William) Johnson (nee Eastman) - Sumner/CO - obit
19 April  
Mrs. Augusta (Adolph) Hoppenworth (nee Rodemeyer) - Tripoli - obit 1 November
Samuel Kadera - Sumner - obit Otto Buhr - Sumner - obit
Paul Kirchmann - Sumner/Belle Glade, FL - obit Fred Wilharm - Sumner - obit
Chris Granneman - Sumner/Oelwein - obit George Morf - Sumner/Los Angeles, CA - obit
Wilbur Ladwig - Sumner/ID - (N)  
Mrs. Amanda (Rudolph) Kohagen (nee Milius) - Sumner - obit 15 November
  Cleve Allen Lonergan (inf. son of M.E.) - Denver - (N)
26 April Mrs. Nellie (William) Brown - Sumner/Oelwein - obit
Mrs. William Burrack (wf of Rev. William) - Denver - (N) Ernest Wolfgram - Sumner - obit
Leigh Alcock - Frederika - obit  
Ronald W. Stepan (inf. son of Eddie) - Tripoli - obit 22 November
Mrs. Wilhelmine (John W.) Schneider (nee Niemann) - Buck Creek - obit Manning Parmely - Sumner/Waterloo - obit
Mrs. Emma (Henry) Volker (nee Warnke) - Sumner - obit  
  29 November
3 May Henry G. Bockholt - Fairbank - obit
Henry Klemp - Tripoli - obit Otto Westendorf - Oran - obit
Mrs. Dora (Burt) Buhr (nee Mattiesen) - Tripoli -obit Mrs. Louise (Alfred) Morf (nee Pleggenkuhl) - Sumner- ovit
Mrs. William Burrack - Denver - obit Mrs.Irene (John) Toussaint (nee Hess) - Sumner/Waterloo - obit
   
10 May 6 December
Mrs. Rose Heller Knode Walden - Janesville - (N) Henry T. Lau - Tripoli - obit
John Koschmeder - Tripoli - obit  
Herman Schuldt - Denver - (N) 13 December
  Lorence C. Moeller - Tripoli - obit & article
17 May  
Herman A. Schuldt - Denver - obit 20 December
  Mrs. Henry Meier - Frederika - (N)
24 May Clara (Otto) Zars (nee Piehl) - Denver - obit
Albert Gruber - Tripoli/Oakdale Sanitarium - (N) Mrs. Anna (Rudolph) Haase (nee Potratz) - Sumner - obit
George Muether - Sumner - obit  
  27 December
31 May Anna Bunger - Tripoli - (N)
Albert Gruber - Readlyn - obit Richard Hemingway - Waverly - (N)
  Henry Specht - Sumner - obit
  Todd Alan Braun (inf. son of Paul) - Sumner - obit
  Mary D. (Henry) Meier (nee Meier) - Frederika - obit

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