Martin AMELUNG

AMELUNG, MUELLER, GLASSEL, GANGESTAD

Posted By: Ruth Tower (email)
Date: 4/17/2022 at 16:07:27

Funeral services for Martin (Seth) Amelung, 32, of Iowa City, were held July 7 in St. Olaf Lutheran Church at Bode. Burial was in the church cemetery. An earlier service was held Monday morning at Iowa City.

Amelung died July 1 at Iowa city. Schellhammer Funeral Home of West Bend was in charge of arrangements.

Amelung is survived by his widow, Rachel, and his mother, Mrs. Martin Amelung, St. Ansgar, Iowa; one brother, Paul, Lamagardo, N.M.; two sisters, Mrs. Dennis Mueller, Decorah; and Mrs. Clyde Glassel of Grafton.

In 1964 he married Rachel Gangestad in Bode. He received a bachelors degree in geography in 1965 from Drake University in Iowa. He was working on his doctorate at the University of Iowa in hospital and health administration at the time of his death.

Amelung was a member of Zion American Lutheran Church in Iowa City, a member of the Iowa Mountaineers and American Association of Geographers.

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