Born June 7, 1893
near Manning, Iowa
Entered Into Rest October 15, 1966 Eventide Home, Denison, Iowa
Age 72 years, 4 months, 8 days
Services Held At Zion Lutheran Church Manning, Iowa Tuesday, October 18, 1966, 11 A.M.
Clergyman Pastor Edward F. Heinicke
Organist Dorothy Kusel
Interment Manning Cemetery
Casketbearers: Roger Flenker, Dale Jahn, Allan Cook, Lowell Schroeder, Estel Rasmussen, Jim Boysen
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our thanks to friends, relatives and neighbors for their
memories, floral offerings and food brought to the church and our home at the
time of the sudden death of our beloved mother, Mrs. Emma Pfoltner. A special
thanks to Pastor Heinicke for his comforting words, Pastor Holstein and his staff
at Eventide Home, for the wonderful care she received. A
thank you to the organist, Dorcas Society for serving a wonderful dinner.
It was all greatly appreciated.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Flenker,
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Jahn, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Schroeder and families.
Funeral rites will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Zion Lutheran Church at Manning, with burial in the Manning Cemetery. Pastor Edward Heinicke will officiate and grandsons will be pallbearers. Friends may call at the Ohde Funeral Home.
Mrs. Pfoltner, daughter of Henry and Mathilda (Mohr) Grau, was born June 7, 1894, in Carroll County north of Manning. She attended rural school.
Her marriage to Charlie Pfoltner took place February 17, 1914. They lived on various farms in this vicinity and moved into town in January 1946. Following her husband's death on May 27, 1961, Mrs. Pfoltner lived alone in Manning until moving to the nursing home in Denison on June 5, 1965.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. W.W. (Florence) Flenker, Maquoketa; Mrs. Amos (Esther) Jahn, Adair; and Mrs. Lewis (Alma) Schroeder, Manilla; nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; a brother, Hugo Grau, Manilla; and a sister, Mrs. Amanda Moeller, Manning.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, an
infant daughter, six brothers, and one sister.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, October 17, 1966