Rock County Obituaries
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Herman Westphol
AGED MAN FOUND DEAD
Early today four men who were picking corn found the body of an elderly man in a
field near Menno. He was identified as Herman P. Westphol, 80, who had wandered
away from the Mercy Home for the Aged, northeast of Parkson, on Aug. 14.
A former resident of Luverne, Minnesota, he was born July 29, 1872. He is
survived by a brother, Ferninand. Burial will be in Luverne on Monday.
(Abstract, "Aberdeen Daily News", Oct. 13, 1952)
WM. WINKLER, SR. OF CLINTON TOWNSHIP, ONE OF ROCK
COUNTY'S BEST KNOWN AND MOST HIGHLY ESTEEMED FARMERS, DIED SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT
1:30 O'CLOCK.
FOR THE PAST YEAR OR MORE, MR. WINKLER HAD BEEN TROUBLED WITH A CHRONIC
ASTHMATIC TROUBLE, WHICH LATELY HAD BECOME SO SEVERE AS TO BE ALMOST UNBEARABLE.
SATURDAY MORNING AT ABOUT EIGHT O'CLOCK HE WAS TAKEN WITH AN UNUSUALLY SEVERE
CHOKING SPELL, AND IT WAS NECESSARY TO ADMINISTER MORPHINE IN ORDER TO GIVE HIM
RELIEF. HE FELL ASLEEP AFTER THIS, AND HIS LIFE EBBED AWAY WHILE HE WAS
SLEEPING.
THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. REV. H.F. RIEKE, OF PLEASANT
VIEW CHURCH READ THE SERVICE AT THE HOME AT 1:15 AND THE BODY WAS THEM BROUGHT
TO THE METHODIST CHURCH IN THIS CITY, AT WHICH SERVICES REV. RIEKE WAS ASSISTED
BY REV. J.A. SAUNDERS.
BURIAL WAS MADE IN MAPLEWOOD CEMETERY, BY THE SIDE OF HIS WIFE, WHO PASSED AWAY
ON APRIL 13, LAST. THE PALLBEARERS WERE GEORGE AND ALFRED NUFFER, E.C. LOOSE,
HENRY BORCHERS, G. OESTERIE AND L.E. LEECH. THE FUNERAL WAS LARGELY ATTENDED,
AND THE FLORAL OFFERINGS WERE UNUSUALLY BEAUTIFUL.
WM. WINKLER WAS BORN IN GERMANY ON MAY 13, 1850. IN 1868 HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY
AND SETTLED NEAR CHICAGO. BEING A MASON BY TRADE, HE WAS ACTIVELY ASSOCIATED
WITH THE REBUILDING OF THAT CITY AFTER ITS GREAT CONFLAGRATION. IN 1871 HE WAS
UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS CAROLINE RUDLOFF, WHO DIED AUGUST 7, 1887. 8 CHILDREN
WERE BORN TO THIS UNION, ALL OF WHOM SURVIVE. THEY ARE JOHN WINKLER OF CLUMY,
CANADA; MRS. WM SPEASE OF LUVERNE TOWNSHIP; MRS. A.R. SCHRIEDER, OF DE SMET,
S.D. MRS. CHARLES POTTIEGER, IDA GROVE, IOWA; MRS. MAHLON CARR, WATERTOWN, S.D.;
DR. F.P. WINKLER OF SIBLEY, IOWA; MRS. MARK RHODES, OF SWIFT CURRENT,
SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA; AND WILLIAM WINKLER, JR. OF TABOR, ALBERTA, CANADA.
THE FAMILY MOVED TO IDA COUNTY, IOWA, IN 1878, AND RESIDED THERE UNTIL IN 1910,
WHEN THEY CAME TO ROCK COUNTY AND TOOK UP THEIR HOME ON A FARM 2 AND 1/2 MILES
NORTH OF LUVERNE. LATER THEY RESIDED IN THE CITY FOR A SHORT TIME, AND 7 YEARS
AGO MOVED ONTO THE FARM IN CLINTON TOWNSHIP.
MR. WINKLER AND MARRIED THE SECOND TIME ON DECEMBER 3, 1889, TO MISS MARY PAEPER,
OF IDA GROVE, IOWA WHO ALSO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. TO THEIR UNION 8 CHILDREN
WERE BORN, ALL BUT 1 OF WHOM ARE LIVING; ALBERT WINKLER, OF RAYMOND, ALBERTA,
CANADA. WALTER OF TABER, ALBERTA, CANADA.
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HENRY WESSELS, March 23 1941. Henry Wessels, of
south of Ashcreek, Minnesota, 68 year old brother of Jans Wessels of 3 miles
northeast of Ellsworth died Sunday in the Luverne hospital where he had been
taken about a week earlier for care. Complications following a severe flu attack
several weeks ago are attributed as cause of his death.
Deceased was a resident of Ellsworth some twenty years ago in the former Chas.
Saum house in west Ellsworth, now owned and tenanted by the Jake Boomgaarden
family. Together with his wife he later returned to his farm near Ashcreek where
he has since lived. His wife died about three years ago.
He is survived three sons and two daughters. They are: Hans, Wadena Minnesota;
William, who operates a filling station a mile west of Ashcreek on Highway No.
75; Mrs. Arend Arends, Ashcreek and Mrs Emil Winterfield, also of Ashcreek. He
is also survived by five sisters: Mrs Adolph Ter Hark., Park Rapids Minnesota;
Mrs Lambert Brommer, Ellsworth, now visiting at Oakland California; Mrs Rekus
Klooster, northeast of Ellsworth; Mrs Herrnina Meester, Ellsworth and Mrs George
Rosenberg of 1 mile northwest of Ellsworth. Funeral services will take place
today (Thursday) at 1:00 o’clock from the State Line Presbyterian church six
miles west of Ellsworth with interment beside the remains of his departed wife.
Ellsworth News