In Memory Of MRS. MINNA (JAHN) MEGGERS

Husband: Gustav Meggers
Born February 12, 1884 Hayes Township, Crawford County, Iowa
Entered Into Rest June 17, 1973 Manning General Hospital Manning, Iowa
Age 89 years, 2 months, 12 days
Services Held At Ohde Funeral Home Manning, Iowa Wednesday June 20, 1973, 2 P.M.
Clergyman Pastor C.W. Schmidt Denison, Iowa
Interment Manning Cemetery
Casketbearers: Marvin Kuhl, Roy Jahn, Hugo Jahn, Willie Meggers, Louie Jahn, Herman Pepper
All friends and relatives are invited to the VFW Hall for lunch and fellowship following the committal services.

MRS. MINNA MEGGERS
Mrs. Minna Margaret Meggers, 89, of Manning, died Sunday, June 17, 1973, at Manning General Hospital, where she had been a patient for two months.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Ohde Funeral Home here, where friends may call starting at 7 p.m. Monday. The Rev. C.W. Schmidt, pastor of the Lutheran Church at Denison, will officiate.

Mrs. Meggers was born in Hayes township, Crawford County, February 12, 1884, a daughter of Paul and Catherine (Lempster) Jahn. On May 18, 1904, she married Gustav F. Meggers and they lived on a farm northwest of Aspinwall for 38 years. They moved to Botna October 1, 1942, and to Manning two years later.

Following her husband's death in 1945, Mrs. Meggers continued to live in Manning, and for the past 5 1/2 years had made her home with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Erps.

Surviving in addition to her daughter are a son, Lester, of Manilla; three grandsons, seven great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren; three brothers, Herman, Hugo and Louie Jahn; and three sisters, Mrs. Lena Kuhl, Mrs. Amanda Pepper and Mrs. Addle Mordhorst.

Mrs. Meggers was preceded in death by an infant daughter; a son, Johnnie; a granddaughter, three great-grandchildren; and three brothers, Willie and Henry Jahn and another in infancy.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, June 18, 1973