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

[Based on Obituary in Mason City Globe Gazette; December 4, 1997]




                           Hertha Fleischer

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA-- Hertha Fleishcer, age 91, of Winterset, Iowa, and
formerly of St. Ansgar, died on Monday December 1, 1997, at Madison
County Memorial Hospital, following a long illness.

Funeral services will be on Saturday at First Lutheran Church, St. Ansgar,
with the Rev. Robert Porisch officiating. Burial will be in the Immanuel
Lutheran Cemetery south of St. Ansgar.

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

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.

The Schroeder & Sites funeral Home, St. Ansgar, is in charge of arrangements.



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