DIES AT HER HOME; DEATH CLAIMED MRS. ALBERT DICKMEYER FRIDAY, AFTER YEAR’S ILLNESS

Mrs. Albert Dickmeyer, 35-year-old Arlington housewife and mother, died at her home Friday as the result of a heart attack. She had been in failing health for more than a year.

Funeral services were held Monday at the home at 1:30, and at 2 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, of which she was a member, the Rev. Carl Hellman officiating, and burial was in St. Paul’s cemetery near Arlington. Funeral arrangements were in charge of Bendorf Funeral Home, Blair.

Lethia Lizzie Stork was born Oct. 12, 1909, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Stork. She was married Oct. 12, 1930 to Albert Dickmeyer, and they had since made their home in this county.

Left to mourn Mrs. Dickmeyer are the husband and one son, Leonard; her mother, Mrs. Emma Stork; and three brothers, Ed and Milo of Blair, and Cpl. Wilfred in the armed forces. Her father and one sister preceded her in death.

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LAST RITES FOR MRS. ALBERT DICKMEYER MONDAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Albert Dickmeyer were held on Monday afternoon at St. Paul’s Lutheran church, and was largely attended. Mrs. Dickmeyer passed away at her farm home near Arlington on Friday morning at 8:30, having been in failing health for the past year.

As Letha Stork, daughter of the late Gottlieb Stork and Mrs. Stork, she was born on October 12, 1909, and on her birthday in 1930 she was united in marriage to Albert Dickmeyer, who with their son, Leonard, survive her. Also surviving are her mother, Mrs. Emma Stork and three brothers, Gilbert and Milo Stork of Blair and Cpl. Wilfred Stork, now overseas in foreign service. One sister and her father preceded her in death.

Mrs. Dickmeyer was the first of a class of seventeen, who were confirmed together at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, to pass on.

At the services the congregation sang “O How Blessed Are Ye Whose Toils Are Ended” and “Asleep in Jesus, Blessed Sleep”. The choir sang “Jesus Still Leads On”. The pallbearers were Elmer Westerman, Walter Giesselman, Ed Gnuse, Clarence Hilgenkamp, Oscar Scheer and Paul Rinas.

Burial was made in St. Paul’s Cemetery.

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clipping on file at the Blair Public Library.~~~