Louise Wilhelmine MEYER

Barten, Louise Wilhelmine (Meyer) Mentz Resident Is Interred Friday Funeral services were held at the family residence in Mentz Friday for Mrs. Louise Barten who died early Thursday. Burial was in Mentz Lutheran cemetery, the Rev. G. Wolf of St. Paul’s Lutheran church of Columbus officiating. Arrangements were in charge of Columbus Funeral Home. Assisting Rev. Wolf in the burial rites were members of the Columbus Lutheran choir, J. Mattern, O. G. Hoegemeyer and Mesdames Wolf, W. J. Litzmann, E. J. Untermeyer and Cornelius Fowler. Mrs. Barten was born Louise Wilhelmine Meyer, a daughter of John Wilhelm and Maria Find Meyer, at New Ulm on November 30, 1860. She was baptized in 1863 at Frelsburg and was confirmed in the Lutheran church in her youth. On October 28, 1879, she was married to Henry W. Barten who died in 1944. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Hugo Meyer, Mentz; three sons, Louis, Mentz; Herman, Shaws Bend, and Edwin, Columbus; a brother Louis Meyer, Alleyton; ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were Harry Barten, Homer Meyer, Lester Aurich, William Ruhmann, William Nelson and Elmer Dennis Meyer. -- Colorado County Citizen, June 7, 1945

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