Mrs. Ernest J. Wermerskirchen of Jordan passed away suddenly at 11:45 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 4. Cause of death was given as pulmonary embolism. She was 79.
Mrs. Wermerskirchen had not been in the best of health the past three weeks. She had been hospitalized the week before, had returned home Saturday and was seemingly getting along nicely when her health took a sudden turn for the worse and she passed away.
Anna Katherine Beckius was born June 29, 1890, at St. Joe to Michael and Margaret Wolf Beckius. She attended school in St. Joe. After growing to young womanhood she was married on Nov. 12, 1912, to Ernest J. Wermerskichen of the home community in Sacred Heart Catholic Church in St. Paul. The couple farmed on several different farms in Scott Co.. The retired and moved to Jordan in 1961. She lived all of her life in Scott Co..
Mrs. Wermerskirchen was a member of St. John's Catholic Church, the Catholic Aid Society, the Christian Mothers' Society and the Third Order of St. Francis.
She is survived by her husband Ernest; two daughters and four sons: Mrs. Raymond (Rita) Olesen of Eugene, Ore., Mrs. Edwin (Vera) Deutsch and Ernest P. of New Prague, and Alfred, Leander and Francis of Jordan; 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Peter P. (Clara) Vermershirchen of Shakopee.
Visitation was at the Strait-Ballard Funeral Home Friday afternoon and evening. Funeral mass was offered at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church by Rev. George Musial, O.F.M., Saturday morning at 9:30. Interment was in Calvary Cemetery.
Casket bearers were six nephews: Walter Wermerskirchen from Park Rapids; Hillard Marxen from Bird Island; Clayton Schoenecker from New Prague; Hubert Weckman and George Ries from Shakopee and Virgil Beckius of Jordan.
Source: Jordan Independent, Jordan, MN - Sept. 11, 1969 - Microfilm copy at Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
Mrs. Ernest J. Wermerskirchen of Jordan passed away suddenly at 11:45 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 4. Cause of death was given as pulmonary embolism. She was 79.
Mrs. Wermerskirchen had not been in the best of health the past three weeks. She had been hospitalized the week before, had returned home Saturday and was seemingly getting along nicely when her health took a sudden turn for the worse and she passed away.
Anna Katherine Beckius was born June 29, 1890, at St. Joe to Michael and Margaret Wolf Beckius. She attended school in St. Joe. After growing to young womanhood she was married on Nov. 12, 1912, to Ernest J. Wermerskichen of the home community in Sacred Heart Catholic Church in St. Paul. The couple farmed on several different farms in Scott Co.. The retired and moved to Jordan in 1961. She lived all of her life in Scott Co..
Mrs. Wermerskirchen was a member of St. John's Catholic Church, the Catholic Aid Society, the Christian Mothers' Society and the Third Order of St. Francis.
She is survived by her husband Ernest; two daughters and four sons: Mrs. Raymond (Rita) Olesen of Eugene, Ore., Mrs. Edwin (Vera) Deutsch and Ernest P. of New Prague, and Alfred, Leander and Francis of Jordan; 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Peter P. (Clara) Vermershirchen of Shakopee.
Visitation was at the Strait-Ballard Funeral Home Friday afternoon and evening. Funeral mass was offered at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church by Rev. George Musial, O.F.M., Saturday morning at 9:30. Interment was in Calvary Cemetery.
Casket bearers were six nephews: Walter Wermerskirchen from Park Rapids; Hillard Marxen from Bird Island; Clayton Schoenecker from New Prague; Hubert Weckman and George Ries from Shakopee and Virgil Beckius of Jordan.
Source: Jordan Independent, Jordan, MN - Sept. 11, 1969 - Microfilm copy at Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
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