Obituary of Louisa Salmon BRUTLAG, Iroquois County,
7 February 1999
Copyright 1999 Elaine Frigone

Name of Deceased:  Louisa Salmon BRUTLAG
Name of Newspaper:  Watseka Republican
Date of Newspaper:  August 25, 1949 


Obituary:  Louisa Salmon Brutlag died August 2, 1949
Funeral services will be held Friday for Mrs. Louisa
Brutlag, 84, who died Tuesday morning at the home of
her son-in-law, Fred Bohlman of Ash Grove. Mrs. 
Brutlag had been ill for more than two months.

She was born May 10, 1865, in Westphalen, Germany
and was the daughter of Henry and Mary Wilke Salmon.
She and her parents came to this country when she
was about year old, making their home near Beecher.

She was married on May 1, 1890, to August Brutlag. 
She and her husband resided in Ash Grove community,
moving to Buckley in 1920 and then back to Ash Grove
in 1933. Mr. Brutlag died on October 1, 1942.

Surviving are nine children, Mrs. Helen Munstermann
of Wolcott, Indiana, Mrs. Clara Munstermann, Mrs. 
Lydia Blanken, Mrs. Martha Bohlman, Arthur and Elmer
all of Woodworth, Lorenz of Chicago, Mrs. Eleanor 
Schultz of Shawno, Wisconsin and Mrs. Edna Kaufman
of Buckley. There are also twenty-seven grandchildren
and eight great grandchildren surviving.

She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church and the
Ladies Aid.  The body was taken to the Barker Funeral
Home at Milford and was removed to the Bohlmann home
this afternoon. Services will be held at 1:30 PM 
Friday at the home and at 2 PM at the church in 
Woodworth, the Reverend C.F. Freundts, officiating.
Burial is to be in the church cemetery.


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