Griebeling, Ida - d. 1940

GRIEBELING, SANNER, GRAHAM, WHETSTINE, DOOLITTLE

Posted By: Beth Talbot Larson (email)
Date: 1/15/2025 at 22:01:04

I. Griebeling Dies Sunday
Funeral Rites to be Wednesday for Retired High School Teacher

Ida Griebeling, instructor in the Newton High School for over 30 years died at her home at 602 South Fifth Avenue West Sunday morning at 10:10 o'clock. She had been in ill health since retiring from teaching in 1932. A heart attack earlier in the day caused her death.

Funeral Services are to be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Morgan Funeral Home with burial in the Newton Union Cemetery. Father Basil Dougherty of Des Moines will be in charge.

A lifelong resident of Newton, Ia. Miss Griebeling was born here the daughter of Ferdinand and Wilhelmina Sanner Griebeling.

For training in the education field, she took an extension course from Madison, Wi. and when a young woman taught in the rural schools of the county and one year at Colfax before joining the faculty of the Newton High School. Here she taught junior high school English except for the past few years in the profession when she was school librarian.

She was actively associated with the Newton Woman's Club and was its president in 1926-27. She was a member of the First Congregational Church.

Surviving relatives are her sisters, Tillie and Anna Griebeling, with whom she made her home and a number of cousins -- Mrs. Frank Graham, Mrs. Adolph Whetstine, Clarence Griebeling, Mrs. Charles Griebeling of Newton and Mrs. M. M. Doolittle of Red Oak Ia.

Newton Daily News, Newton, IA December 16, 1940