Individual Details
Hermine Friedrike "Minnie" Wilken
(24 Sep 1884 - 22 Oct 1962)
Events
| Birth | 24 Sep 1884 | Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States | |||
| Marriage | 2 Mar 1905 | Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States - Behrend "Ben" Wolken |  | ||
| Death | 22 Oct 1962 | Monticello, Jones, Iowa, United States |  |
Families
| Spouse | Behrend "Ben" Wolken (1880 - 1964) |
| Father | Herman F Wilken (1834 - 1912) |
| Mother | Maria Sophie Collman (1844 - 1918) |
| Sibling | Johanna Margaretha Wilken (1875 - 1897) |
| Sibling | Louise Katherine Wilken (1877 - 1930) |
| Sibling | Mary Sophia Wilken (1881 - 1965) |
Notes
Death
THE MONTICELLO (IOWA) EXPRESS, OCTOBER 25, 1962 PAGE A-4HERMINE WOLKEN
MONTICELLO --Funeral services for Mrs. Ben(Hermine Friedrike)Wolken will be held this afternoon (Thursday) at 2:15 o'clock at Wayne Zion Lutheran church, rural
Monticello. Rev. Luther Wachholz will be in charge. Burial will be in Wayne Zion cemetery.
Mrs. Wolken died Monday at John McDonald hospital, where she had been a patient five days.
She was born Sept 24, 1884 in Wayne township, a daughter of Herman F and Marie Collmann Wolken. She spent her entire life in Wayne township and was educated in the rural schools there.
On March 2, 1905, she was married to Ben Wolken at Wayne church. They farmed near Langworthy until moving to their present home in Langworthy in 1946. She was a member of Wayne Zion Lutheran church.
Survivors include her husband, Ben of Langworthy; a sister, Mrs. Mary Dirks, Langworthy, and several nieces and nephews, some of whom were raised in the Wolken home.
She was preceded in death by a son, Edward D., her parents, three sisters, one brother and a half-brother.
Endnotes
1. "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, Family Search, (https://familysearch.org: accessed 31 May 2014), Detrick Walken in entry for Berend Wolken and Hermine F Wilkins, 02 Mar 1905.