Dora Marie Kollmorgen Eggeling (1862-1958)

Dora Marie Kollmorgen Eggeling

Birth

25 Dec 1862

Germany

Death

28 Nov 1958 (aged 95)

McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska, USA

Burial

Culbertson Cemetery

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Plot

Section B, Lot 97

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One of Culbertson's oldest residents, Mrs. Dora Eggeling, died Friday morning at St. Catherine's hospital in McCook at the age of 95. She had been hospitalized since suffering a light stroke about two weeks before her death.

Funeral services were conducted here at 2 p.m. Sunday in St. John's Lutheran church, with the pastor, Rev. R. Einspahr, officiating. Singers for the service were Mrs. J.W. Wagner, Mrs. Edwin Zander, Franz Zander, and Glen Schmelzer, with Miss Ann Morthole as organist.

Serving as pallbearers were Henry Meints, Andy Alberts, Edwin Zander, Andrew T. Groothuis, John T. Groothuis, and Albert Rathe. Burial was in the Culbertson cemetery under the direction of the Herrmann funeral home of McCook.
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Dora Marie Eggeling was born December 25, 1862 at Gatas Taba Mecklingburg, Germany, and died November 28, 1958 in McCook, Nebraska, having attained the age of 95 years, 11 months, and 3 days.

She grew to womanhood in Germany, and at the age of 18 came with her parents to the United States, where they settled at Jensen, Nebraska.

She was married to Fred C. Eggeling on June 6, 1884, and they took up a homestead 12 miles northwest of Culbertson in 1892. In 1904 Mr. and Mrs. Eggeling sold the homestead place and moved to a Republican valley farm five miles southeast of Culbertson.

Following the death of Mr. Eggeling on March 4, 1930, Mrs. Eggeling and her daughter, Minnie, moved to Culbertson for a period of three years and then returned to the farm until 1935 when the Republican river flood destroyed their home and all of the farm buildings. Since the flood, Mrs. Eggeling and her daughter had lived in Culbertson.

Mrs. Eggeling was the mother of 11 children. Two sons, Charles and Frank, and two daughters, Freida and Mrs. Fred (Adele) Cappel, preceded her in death.

Survivors include three sons, Alvin of Culbertson; Fred of San Diego, California; and William of Denver, Colorado; four daughters, Mrs. Anna Cook and Mrs. Louis Morthole of McCook, Nebraska; Mrs. Dorothy June of Hastings, Nebraska; and Miss Minnie Eggeling of Culbertson; 17 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren.

Source: The Culbertson Progress, December 4, 1958