The Sioux City Journal, Friday, March 6, 1936 - Page 16
DEATH CLAIMS PASTOR’S WIFE
Mrs. Gertrude Klatt of Ponca Passes Away.
Mrs. Gertrude Klatt of Ponca, wife of Rev. G. Klatt, pastor of the Ponca and Salem Lutheran churches, died Thursday morning in a Sioux City hospital following a year’s sickness.
Born in Galesburg, Ill., December 27, 1888, Mrs. Klatt moved with her parents to Stamford, Neb., where she was graduated from high school in 1909 and married Rev. Mr. Klatt in 1913. They moved Ohiowa, Neb., where he was pastor of a Lutheran church for 15 years, and in 1927 went to Ponca.
Rev. Mr. Klatt and two sons, Stuart and Harold Klatt, all of Ponca; Mrs. Klatt’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Allen of Stamford, and a sister, Mrs. E. Ohlund of Colorado Springs, survive.
Active in the Ladies Aid societies of the Ponca and Salem Lutheran churches, Mrs. Klatt was secretary of the Ponca society at the time of her death.
A short service will be held at 10:30 o’clock this morning at the Otto Kuk funeral home in South Sioux City before the body is taken to Stamford for funeral services and burial. Rev. A. H. Pinkhall of the South Sioux City Lutheran church and Rev. Hugo Welchert of Emerson, will officiate.
Services at Stamford will be at 2 o’clock Sunday at the Lutheran church with Rev. S. Schuldt and Dr. Eric Von Mussbaum, both of Hastings, officiating. Burial will be in the Stamford cemetery with Otto Kuk’s funeral home in charge.
