Individual Details
Lois Eileen Kuhns
(20 Feb 1918 - 23 Feb 1995)
Events
| Birth | 20 Feb 1918 | Scotch Grove Township, Jones, Iowa, United States | |||
| Marriage | 21 Oct 1936 | Wayne Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States - Renk Earl Eilers |  |  | |
| Census (family) | 1940 | Fairview Township, Jones, Iowa, United States - Renk Earl Eilers | | ||
| Death | 23 Feb 1995 | Linn, Iowa, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Renk Earl Eilers (1911 - 1978) |
| Child | Earl Louis Eilers (1937 - 1978) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Philestus Lewis "Lestus" Kuhns (1880 - 1966) |
| Mother | Nellie Maria Katherina Henrichs (1889 - 1929) |
Notes
Marriage
Lois Eileen Kuhns Weds Renk EilersWayne Zion Church Is Setting For Impressive Wedding Wednesday Morning
Lois Kuhns, the daughter of Lestus Kuhns of Scotch Grove, was married at 11 o'clock yesterday at the Wayne Zion Lutheran church, to Renk Eilers, son of Mr. and Mrs Ben Eilers of Richland. Rev. Willms read the double ring ceremony.
Mrs. W. B. Henrichs played the wedding march and Wilma Kuhns, sister of the bride, sang preceding the ceremony.
The bride wore a floor length dress of wine colored velvet, trimmed at the neck with white velvet and brilliants. She wore silver sandals, a silver hair ornament, and carried a bouquet of white pom poms.
Her attendants, gowned in floor length black taffeta, and carrying bouquets of pink and white pom poms were her sister, Eunice Kuhns and her cousin, DeLite Folkerts.
Herbert Balsiger served as best man and Lester Wenger as usher. A wedding dinner for the bridal party and immediate relatives was served after the ceremony at the bride's home to over 50 guests.
Mrs. Eilers attended the Monticello public schools, her husband has been working In Anamosa. A wedding dance at Zimmerman's hall honored the newly weds Wednesday evening.
Census (family)
Head Renk E Eilers M 29 Iowa, 8th grade, Farmer Farm OA, 52 wks $0in 1939Wife Loree E Eilers F 22 Iowa, H-3,
Son Earl L Eilers M 2 Iowa
Daughter Judy C Eilers F 1 Iowa
Residence in 1935: Rural, Jones, Iowa
Endnotes
1. "Lois Eileen Kuhns Weds Renk Eilers," Monticello (Iowa) Express, 22 October 1936; Ross & Elizabeth Baty Public Library (http://batypl.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 12 March 2011), Newspaper Digital Archives.