OBITUARY: Hertha Fleischer 1906-1997, Mitchell County, Iowa



                             Hertha Fleischer

[Mason City Globe Gazette; December 4, 1997 ]

ST. ANSGAR -- Hertha Fleischer, 91, of Winterset, formerly of St. Ansgar,
died Monday (Dec. 1, 1997) at Madison County Memorial Hospital, following
a long illness.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at First Lutheran Church,
St. Ansgar, with the Rev. Robert Porisch officiating. Burial will be in
the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery.

Visitation will be one hour prior to service time at the church. Schroeder
Sites funeral Home, St. Ansgar, is in charge of arrangements.

Hertha was born on Nov. 11, 1906, in Myrtle, Minn., to Paul and Martha
(Behl) Fleischer. Hertha's parents died when she was quite young and
her brothers and sisters were sent to Lutheran Orphanage in. . . .

Hertha worked briefly in Des Moines before moving to Oak Park, Illinois.
She was employed by the Federal Railroad Retirement Board for more than 20
years as a switchboard operator, retiring in 1972.

Hertha moved to Brooklyn Park, Minn., then to St. Ansgar and later to
Austin, Minn. She moved to Winterset two years ago, where she lived at
the Country Haven Retirement Home.

Hertha is survived by three nieces, three nephews, several great nieces
and nephews.

She was preceded in death by parents; two sisters, Adella and Lila; three
brothers, Alfred (a past resident of Wells, Minn.), Leonard and Maynard;
and one great nephew.





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