OBITUARY: Elfrieda M. Muller, 1908-2004, Mitchell Co., Iowa
 
[Adapted from: Mitchell County-Press-News online - Posted Jan. 14, 2004 ] 
 



                           Elfrieda M. Muller

Funeral services for Elfriede M. Muller, 95, of Truman, Minnesota, was
on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2004, at the Lutheran Retirement Home in Truman,
with the Rev. Nathan Rusert of St. Paul's Lutheran Church officiating.

Burial will be in the Osage Cemetery in Osage, Iowa.

Mrs. Muller died Monday morning, Jan. 12, 2004, at the Lutheran Retirement
Home in Truman.  Arrangements were made by Olson-Zaharia Funeral Home
in Truman.

Elfriede Margaret Kerndt, the daughter of Richard and Margaret (Michael)
Kerndt, was born in Berlin, Germany, on Jan. 13, 1908.  She was confirmed
on March 21, 1923 in Germany at a Lutheran Church.

She attended a private school for girls in Germany. Elfriede came to
America and settled with other relatives in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1923.

On Oct. 17, 1929, she was united in marriage to Fritz W. Muller in Oak Park.
Following their marriage they farmed near Osage. Elfriede became an American
citizen on May 5, 1937. 

Mr. Muller died on July 14, 1976 and she continued to live in Osage and
Forest City before moving to Minnesota.

She has been a resident of Lakeview Methodist Health Care Center in
Fairmont and the Lutheran Retirement Home in Truman.  Elfriede was a
member of St. John's Lutheran Church and Trinity Lutheran Church of Osage.

She is survived by two daughters, Elaine Ritz and her husband, Raymond
of Truman, Minnesota, and Phyllis Disque and her husband, Richard of
Forest City; grandchildren, Deb Manley of Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota,
Monte Moore and his wife, Dawn of Forest City, Brett Moore of Lake Mills;
great-grandchildren, Jacklyn Raye Gronholz, Caitlin and Mariah, and
Natalie and Riley Moore.

She was preceded in death by grandparents, William and Paulina Michael,
who made their home with the Mullers; parents Richard and Margaret
Kerndt; her husband, Fritz Muller; and a son, Ramon Muller.



     Copyright 2004, K. L. Kittleson