OBITUARY: Dorothea Rohde Pahl 1886-1966, Mitchell County, Iowa

(1966)


            MRS. DOROTHEA PAHL, COUNTY'S OLDEST RESIDENT, DECEASED

Funeral services were held March 21 (1966), at Immanuel Lutheran Church in
St. Ansgar, for Mitchell County's oldest resident, Mrs. Dorothea Pahl, 102,
who died March, 17. 

The Rev. Norman Betke, church pastor, was in charge of the services, and
arrangements were by Schroeder and Houg of St. Ansgar. Burial was in the
St. Ansgar Cemetery.

Dorothea Louise Rohde was born April 12, 1886 in Zachan, Germany, the
youngest of the seven children of Johann and Louise Dorothea Wachlin Rohde.
                              
She was baptized May 3, 1878, in Zachan by the Rec. Mr. Lehman. Her parents
died while she was still a young child and she spent a few years in an
orphanage. When she was 19 she accompanied her older sister and family
to the United States.

About two years after coming here, she was married to Frank Pahl, May 25,
1885. They made their home on a farm east of Grafton in Rock Township,
Mitchell County, moving to St. Ansgar, in September, 1941.

Mrs. Pahl became a member of Immanuel Lutheran church in St. Ansgar in
1915, transferring from St. John's Lutheran near Grafton.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Frank; two sons, Rudolph and
August; two step-sons and one step-daughter.

Surviving are one son, Herman of St. Ansgar; two daughters, Mrs. Lena Kumm
of Spring Valley, Minn., and Lydia Pahl of St. Ansgar; seven grandchildren,
13 great grandchildren, one great-great-grandchildren and five
step-grandchildren.




Copyright (c) 2002 by Marilyn O'Connor
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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