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MESSAGE: (#62105) Mrs. RAY (Florence A. Munger) JACOBIA 1882-1979
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AUTHOR: Mary Durr
DATE: 11/26/2004 at 21:40:20
Surnames: LEMPKE,MUNGER,JACOBIA,MEISNER,RANKIN,BAISCH,KESTERSON
Florence Jacobia
Funeral services for Florence A. Jacobia, were held Friday, August 24, 1979 at
10:30 a.m. at Community Presbyterian Church, Postville. The Reverend Dennis E.
Morey officiated. Schutte Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
Burial was in the Eno Cemetery, rural Luana.
Florence A. Jacobia, daughter of Milo and Sophia (Lempke) Munger, was born
July 26, 1882 in Elkader. She passed away August 21 at the Good Samaritan
Center Postville, at the age of 97.
She was baptized at Elkader. In 1900 she graduated from the high school at
Elkader and became a teacher in the rural schools of Edgewood, Elkader and
Gunder.
January 27, 1914 she was married to Ray Jacobia at Elkader. To this union four
children were born. For a short time after they were married, they lived in
Postville. They moved to the farm near Gunder, where son Milo now lives. In
1938 they moved to Gunder. Ray died March 4, 1958, and Florence moved to an
apartment in Postville. She became a resident of the Good Samaritan Center in
1973.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ray; three brothers: Frank, Henry
and Vern Munger; and a great grandchild Terry Meisner.
She is survived by a son, Milo of Postville; three daughters: Carol (Mrs. Al
Rankin) Lakewood, California; Dorthy (Mrs. Norman Raisch) Rupert, Idaho; and
Larsyne (Mrs. Wayne Kesterson) Houston, Texas; eleven grandchildren and eleven
great grandchildren.
She was a member of the Community Presbyterian Church, Postville; the Home
Garden Club of Grand Meadow township, and a 50 year member of Eastern Star at
Elkader.
Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.
Submitter not related -- posted for benefit of others.