OBITUARY: Verna Emelie Bertha (Decklever) Roehr, 1905-1982, Mitchell Co., IA

[ Original obituary printed in St. Ansgar Enterprise, December 23, 1982 ]




Mrs. Clyde Roehr
Funeral Held
Immanuel Lutheran 

Funeral services for Mrs. Clyde Roehr, 77 of St. Ansgar, who died December
11, 1982 at the St. Ansgar Good Samaritan Center, were held December 15, 1982
at the Immanuel Lutheran church here with the Rev. Norman Betke officiating.

Verna Emelie Bertha (Decklever) Roehr was born April 12, 1905 in St. Ansgar
township, the daughter of William and Amanda (Ruchlow) Decklever.  She was
baptized May 14, 1905 at St. Peter Lutheran church., Toeterville, by the
Rev. George Landgrebe. She attended grade school in St. Ansgar, and also at
the Spring Valley rural school. May 25, 1919 she was confirmed at Immanuel
Lutheran church here by the Rev. Paul Brammer. She attended high school in
St. Ansgar until her parents moved to Osage where she then attended the
Osage high school.
  
March 3, 1926 she was married to Clyde Roehr at the Immanuel Lutheran
parsonage here with the Rev. Paul Brammer officiating. They made their
home in Cedar township near Osage until 1941. At that time they moved to
Union township near Toeterville where they resided until 1946. They then
moved to Otranto township near Mona and lived there for 32 years until
retiring from farming and moving to St. Ansgar in 1978.
 
Mrs. Roehr had been newspaper correspondent for four area newspapers for
33 years. And for the St. Ansgar Enterprise for 27 years. She served as
4-H leader in Otranto township for six years and was 4-H county
committeewoman for six years, serving these 12 years from 1947-1958. She
also served as secretary of St. John's Ladies' Aid, Cedar township, and
had served as secretary of the Immanuel Ladies' Aid, was a member of the
Lutheran Women's Missionary League and the Dorcas-Mary Circle of Immanuel.

Mrs. Roehr organized three women's clubs over the years; the Cedar Homemakers
and East Cedar Merrymakers of Osage and the Otranto township Happy Hour
Club and held offices in all of these.

She is survived by her husband, Clyde; sister-in-law; three nieces, Lorraine
Harlis of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Norma Duncan of Denver, Colorado, and
Marian Woolm of Sarasota, Florida; five nephews, Lavern Decklever of
Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Wayne Decklever of Phoenix, Arizona; Richard
Decklever of Osage, Iowa; Larry Decklever, Bloomington, Minnesota; and Melvin
Decklever of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Lloyd and
Lawrence Decklever of Osage.

Burial was in the Osage cemetery with Rev. Betke in charge of committal
services.




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