Birth: 25 MAR 1873 in 5 miles SW of Atchison, Atchison, Kansas
Death: 8 DEC 1934 in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas
Burial: 11 DEC 1934 Evergreen Cemetery, Effingham, Kansas
The Atchison Daily Globe

MRS. GEORGE DELFELDER NEAR EFFINGHAM DIES
Mrs. George Delfelder, one of the best known and most public spirited women in the Effingham community, died at 3:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the S.B.A. hospital, Topeka, where she submitted to an operation Wednesday morning. Mrs. Delfelder was 61 years old and had spent her entire life in Atchison county.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon at the Effingham Community Church. The Rev. William Cody, Neosho, Mo., former Effingham pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery.
George Morgan, George Bolinger, Charles Henderson, Fred Buhrmaster, John Niblo and James Tuley will be the pallbearers.
Mrs. Delfelder's maiden name was Lillian Hamner. She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hamner, pioneers of Atchison county, and was born March 25, 1873, on the old Glick farm five miles southwest of Atchison. She was educated in the rural and Atchison city schools.
On May 6, 1891, she was married to George Delfelder by Judge J.W. Dean at the Atchison probate court. They moved immediately to the farm southwest of Effingham where they lived for the last 43 years.
Mrs. Delfelder was a member of the Lutheran church at Effingham until it disbanded and then joined the Presbyterian church. She was a member of the Missionary Aid society of that church; of the S.B.A., the Sunshine club; was worthy president of the W. C. T. U., at Effingham; and, for 16 years was superintendent of the culinary department of the Atchison county fair at Effingham. In all of these organizations she took an active and leading part.
She is survived by her husband, six daughters, three sons, six sisters, three brothers and 13 grandchildren. A son, John F. Delfelder, died July 27, 1933.


Effingham New Leaf
Mrs. George Delfelder
For two years Mrs. Delfelder had been in poor health, but she was ambition personified and did all her strength would permit, even more than she should.
Thanksgiving Day, fifty-seven relatives gathered at the Delfelder home for a pot-luck dinner. The day before Mrs. Delfelder prepared her share, a goodly one, but when the reunion was in progress she became very ill so was taken to the hospital, when an incision was made and a sack of pus removed, but from that time on no hope was held for her recovery.
However, the exact cause of her illness was not disclosed until a post mortem revealed a malignant growth on her liver.
Surgeons told the family an exploratory incision even two years ago, would only have caused her suffering and uneasiness of mind, for nothing could have been done even to prolong her life.
The deceased when a girl moved with her parents to a farm northwest of Effingham. She became the bride of George Delfelder, who lived two miles west of Effingham, May 6, 1891. They began house keeping on the farm, where they lived these 43 years.