Westphal, Mrs. Fred (d. 1954)

WESTPHAL, MARTENSEN, HOLDEN, PETERSEN, CARSTENSEN, AHRENDSEN

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Date: 2/20/2023 at 13:11:21

December 23, 1954 - The Anamosa Eureka

WYOMING - Mrs. Fred W. Westphal, 81, died at 8:25 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 19, at the home of her son, Clare Westphal, Wyoming, after a long illness.

Funeral service was held at the Clare Westphal home at 1 p.m. and at the Zion American Lutheran church, Wyoming, at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 22.

Rev. R. F. Gronewold officiating and burial was in Wyoming cemetery. Wallace funeral home was in charge.

Mrs. Westphal is survived by her husband, three children, Mrs. Melvin Martensen and Clare, Wyoming, and Mrs. Sidney Holden, Buffalo, N.Y.; six grandsons and one great-granddaughter.

Three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Petersen, Mrs. Margaret Carstensen and Mrs. Martin Petersen, all of Oxford Junction; one brother, Hans Ahrendsen, Correctionville, also survive.

She was preceded in death by one daughter, who died in infancy, her parents and one sister.