Individual Details
Engel Margaretha Weers
(2 Jul 1887 - 31 Oct 1973)
Events
Families
Spouse | Wilhelm "William" Bohlken (1879 - 1965) |
Father | Gerd "Garret" Weers (1860 - 1944) |
Mother | Anna Katharina Harms (1860 - 1944) |
Sibling | Teita Margaretha "Theda" Weers (1885 - 1970) |
Sibling | Anna Maria "Mary" Weers (1889 - 1975) |
Sibling | Lena Catherine Weers (1892 - 1971) |
Sibling | Heinrich Georg "Henry" Weers (1894 - 1958) |
Sibling | Emma Johanna Weers (1897 - 1957) |
Sibling | Gesine Elise "Lizzie" Weers (1900 - ) |
Sibling | John Henry Weers (1902 - 1994) |
Notes
Census (family)
19 BOHLKEN WM 45 IA H BOHLKEN, GEORGE H 76 GER TOBIASEN, ANNA M 72 GER IA20 BOHLKEN E M 37 IA W WEIR, GERD 64 GER HARMS, ANNA 64 GER IA
21 BOHLKEN CARA M 13 IA D IA
22 BOHLKEN GERKE W 9 IA S IA
23 BOHLKEN EDNA E 6 IA D IA
Death
MONTICELLO EXPRESS...PAGE 15....NOVEMBER 8, 1973E.M. BOHLKEN....MONTICELLO
Funeral services for Engel Margaret Bohlken, 86, were held Nov 3, at 1:30 p.m. at Wayne Zion cemetery, Monticello. The Rev. Harvey O. Gilbertson officiated.
Mrs. Bohlken died Oct 31 at Senior Home, where she had been a resident for the past five years. She was born July 2, 1887 in Wayne Township, daughter of Gerd and Anna Katherine Harms Weers.
She received her early education in Jones county rural schools and was married to William Bohlken March 13, 1907. The couple farmed near Scotch Grove their entire life.
In April 1965, she moved to Monticello after the death of her husband.
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Carl (Clara) Reuter, Center Jct; one son, Gerke, Monticello; a brother, John Weers, Monticello; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Bohlken, Marion, and Mrs. Emma Doden, Monticello, six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Casketbearers were Alvin Weers, Paul Waggoner, Gary Bohlken, Milton Tobiason, Marvin Doden and Cornelius Paulsen.
Endnotes
1. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1900 > IOWA > JONES > WAYNE TWP Series: T623 Roll: 440 Page: 228.
2. , Seventy-fifth anniversary of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congregation 1872-1947. (Wayne Township, Jones Co. Monticello, Iowa.:, 1947), p 29.
3. , Seventy-fifth anniversary of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congregation 1872-1947. (Wayne Township, Jones Co. Monticello, Iowa.:, 1947), p 85.
4. Jones Co. Iowa Census, Jones Co. Iowa GenWeb online [http://iowajones.org/census/census.htm], accessed.