Kremer, Grace Cheadle Fintzel

Kremer, Henry M.

Todd, Isaac J.

Wickenhagen, Blanche Samp

Aberdeen Daily News

29 October 1920

Contributed by Rita Bergendahl

ISAAC J. TODD

Isaac J. Todd, father of Mrs. Paul Yerka? Of Aberdeen, died Sunday in Sioux Falls. Mr. Todd suffered from heart disease and was stricken upon the street while going down town. Mr. Todd was an early resident of Salem, S.. D., in McCook county being in the real estate business there many years. Mr. Todd had frequently visited in Aberdeen and was well known to many businessmen of this city. He was a member of the Masonic order.

The Huron (South Dakota) Daily Plainsman
Thursday, June 22, 1967
transcribed by Karen Seeman

HENRY M. KREMER

Sioux Falls - Funeral services were conducted Jan. 9 at St. Marys Catholic Church for Henry M. Kremer, 93, Sioux Falls, a long time resident of Salem who died Jan. 4 in a Sioux Falls hospital.
Mr. Kremer was born at LeMars, Iowa March 11, 1877 and came to Salem in 1882. He married Emma Olinger at St. Paul, Minn. Dec. 24, 1919. They moved to Sioux Falls in 1929 where he was a commercial broker. She died in 1969.

The Daily Plainsman, Huron, South Dakota
Sunday, August 19, 1962

Contributed by Karen Seeman

GRACE CHEADLE FINTZEL KREMER

Miller—Final rites were conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday in the First Methodist Church for Mrs. Grace Fintzel Kremer, who died Aug. 15 at Hand County Memorial Hospital. The Rev. R. O. Moberly officiated and burial was in GAR Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Ted Lamm, Richard Cotton, Jerry Cotton, Dan Heitzman, Leland Christian and Ira Furman.
Grace Cheadle was born Nov. 18, 1878, in Freeborn County, Minn., the daughter of Theophilus and Florence Cheadle. They came by covered wagon to Salem when she was six-months-old. She received her schooling at Salem and married John Fintzel June 27, 1897, at Salem. They lived at Salem and Madison and moved to Miller Sept. 1, 1908. They moved to Oregon in 1935 and spent a few years there before returning to Miller. Following the death of her husband in 1940, Mrs. Fintzel went to Oregon for a short time, returning to Miller in the spring of 1942. She was dean of the girls dormitory here seven years. Her marriage to Albert Kremer took place June 10, 1953, and they resided in Sioux City. She suffered a stroke in 1955 and both she and her husband were residents of Ingleside Nursing Home in Sioux City four years. He died Nov. 13, 1960. Mrs. Kremer moved to Kingsbury Manor at Lake Preston in 1961 and in June of 1962 moved to Prairie Center at Miller.
She was a member of First Methodist Church, WSCS, Friendship Sunday school class and Royal Neighbor Lodge.
Survivors include one son, George Dewey, Sioux City, Iowa; one daughter, Mrs. Ross Cotton, Miller; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.
Four brothers and sisters preceded her in death.

Unknown South Dakota Newspaper
Submitted by Jacque McDonnell

BLANCHE SAMP WICKENHAGEN

Funeral services were held February 18, 2006 at Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa, for Blanche Wickenhagen of Cleghorn, Iowa. Rev. Don Meyer officiated and burial will be at a later date in Liberty Cemetery in rural Meriden, Iowa.
Blanche Samp was born March 6, 1915, in Spencer, SD, to William and Louisa (McDaniel) Samp and died February 16,2006 at Heartland Care Center in Marcus, Iowa, at the age of 90 years, 11 months and 10 days.
She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran church.
She was united in marriage to William Latuska in 1941. He passed away in 1942 in a farming accident. To this union was born a daughter, Ardyce.
She was married to Estel R. Wickenhagen in June 1950, in Nevada, Mo. She had worked at the Cleghorn Library for a few years. She had lived in the Cleghorn and Meriden, Iowa, area for 55 years.
She loved to garden, do quilting, crossword puzzles, bake cookies and spend time with her family.
Survivors include: two daughters, Ardyce Skaggs of Cherokee, IA, and Bonnie Van Veldhuizen of Germantown, MD, one son, Don and Joanne Wickenhagen of Hospers, IA; eight grandchildren, Bill and Jill Barritt, Carrie and Mike Smeltzer, Jay and Aimee Barritt, Andy Skaggs, Eric and Kelly Van Veldhuizen, Alyssa Van Veldhuizen, Emily and Scott Winters and Heidi Wickenhagen; six great-grandchildren, Jake and Ben Barritt, Nick, Brett and Jennifer Barritt and Zoe Winters; one sister, Stella Fredrickson of Cherokee, IA; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Richard Hamlin, Wayne Hamlin and Elaine Ashdown of Highmore.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband on Jan. 31, 1963; a son, Roger Wickenhagen in 2002; three brothers; and six sisters.