Dakota-Pipestone-Kanabec County MN Archives Obituaries.....Lomker, Emilie Pottratz December 8, 1976
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Hastings Gazette, 14 December 1976
Mrs. Emilie Lomker, Age 92, Dies in Calif. Burial in Hastings
Funeral services were conducted on Monday, Dec. 13th, in St. John’s Ev. Lutheran 
Church, Hastings, for Mrs. Fred (Emilie) Lomker, age 92, of Garden Grove, 
Calif., by Rev. Glenway Backus.  Mrs. Lomker passed away on Wednesday, December 
8, 1976, in the Extended Care Hospital, Long Beach, Calif.
Interment was in the family plot in Lakeside Cemetery, Hastings.  Serving as 
pallbearers were:  Ralph Cook, Tony and Conrad Fuchs, Walter Swanson, Henry 
Trapp and Reuben Wittnebel.
Emilie Pottratz Lomker was born in Pipestone County, August 27, 1884, the 
daughter of Herman and Ann Mohr Pottratz.  Her marriage to Fred Lomker took 
place in Mora, June 14, 1902, and they were the parents of ten children.  Her 
husband Fred and two children, Clara and Leonard, preceded her in death.
Mrs. Lomker and her family came to Hastings in 1920 and about 25 years ago she 
moved to California.  She was a member of St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church since 
1920.
Surviving are four daughters; Mrs. Francis (Esther) Kleis, Long Beach, Mrs. 
Lester (Rosalie) Gittens, Midway City, Mrs. Lynn (Lillian) Canning, Garden 
Grove, all in Calif., and Mrs. Merlin (Viola) Deppert of Pekin, Ill.; four sons, 
Fred and Walter of Hastings, George of Long Beach and Robert of Fullerton, 
Calif.; 24 grandchildren; 54 great-grandchildren, and five great-great-
grandchildren; also two brothers, Arnold and Richard Pottratz of Mora.
Hastings Gazette, Hastings, MN.  Thursday, Dec. 14, 1976.  Page 4


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