OBITUARY: Adeline Lisette Westenberger, Mitchell County, Iowa

(St. Ansgar Enterprise, St. Ansgar, Iowa; 19 DEC 1991)


            Adeline Lisette Westenberger  [1904-1991]

Funeral services were held December 14 for Adeline Westenberger, 87, who
died December 11. She has been a resident at the St. Ansgar Good Samaritan
Center for the past five and one half years.

Adeline Lisette Westenberger was born August 11, 1904 in the home of her
parents, Dr. Joseph C. and Josephine nee Toeter Westenberger at St. Ansgar.

She was baptized there on September 6, 1904 by her paternal grandfather, the
Rev. J. Westenberger with Wilhelmine Toeter, Lisette Westenberger and
Amanda Toeter as her sponsors.

She attended the St. Ansgar schools, graduating from St. Ansgar High
School. She was instructed by the Rev. Paul Brammer and confirmed her
baptismal vows on May 24, 1918 at Immanuel Lutheran Church and
remained a lifelong member of the church.

A graduate of Carleton College at Northfield, MN, she devoted her life to
assisting her father in his medical practice in St. Ansgar and caring for her
parents. She had been a member of the Young Ladies Society of the
Immanuel Lutheran Church; a member and past officer of the Esther Circle;
a Sunday School and confirmation teacher for the congregation. In the
community she had been a member of the St. Ansgar Federated Woman's
Club, the Garden Club and the Library Board. She enjoyed travel, journeying
to Europe and visiting her relatives on the West Coast.

The Rev. N.E. Betke conducted the services. Burial was in the St. Ansgar
Cemetery.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother.

She is survived by her nieces, Laurie Westenberger Sturley of Quincy, CA,
and Theo Westenberger of New York, NY; great nephew Gabriel Sturley of
Quincy, great nieces, Erin, Theodora Joanne and Jasassa Joy Sturley of
Quincy, and cousins and friends.


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