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The Breda News, December 13, 1944 MRS. JOHN BOES' FUNERAL THURSDAY Passed Away at Her Home In Breda, Sunday Morning, December 2nd. HAS BEEN IN POOR HEALTH PAST YEAR Funeral services were held at St. Bernard's church in Breda Thursday morning for Mrs. John Boes, 70 years old, who passed away at her home in Breda, Sunday morning, December 2. Mrs. Boes had been in poor health for the past year, and seriously ill since Thanksgiving. Death was attributed to heart disease and other complications. The Rev. Norbert Boes of Pomeroy, son of Mrs. Boes celebrated the solemn requiem high mass. The deacon was a nephew, the Rev. Father Zeno Reising; sub-deacon, the Rev. Father Clemens Knobbe; master of ceremonies, the Rev. Father Leroy Frank; thurifer, the Rev. Father L. P Friedman; acolytes, Robert Oswald, Vernon Boes and Joseph Knobbe. Burial was made in the parish cemetery.
She remained at home until her marriage to John Boes, which took place October 8, 1901, in St Bernard's church in Breda. The couple located on a farm northwest of here, where they lived until their retirement four years ago, when they moved into town. Photo: John and Anna Boes, 1901 Mrs. Boes was a member of St. Bernard's church, the Christian Mothers Sodality and the Missionary Society of the parish. Besides her husband, she leaves six sons and one daughter; William Boes, Wall Lake, Julius Boes, Breda; Mrs. Henry Steinkamp (Eleanora), Wall Lake; the Rev. Norbert Boes, Pomeroy; Cpl. Cletus Boes, with the ninth Army in Germany; and Pfc. Romaine Boes, of Camp Beale, Calif. Two sons preceded their mother in death. Herbert, the eldest, died at the age of eight months and Alois, twin brother of Mrs. Henry Steinkamp, also at eight months. Besides her husband and children, Mrs. Boes is survived by 18 grandchildren and three half brothers: John and Louis Reising, Breda, and Max Reising, near Breda, and one sister-in-law, Mrs. Agnes Geier of Breda. Her parents, one brother, William Geier, one sister, Emma Geier, and one half-sister, Mrs. Louis Woerdehoff (Mary), preceded her in death. Pallbearers were: Marcellus Oswald, Richard Stark, Vincent Snyder, Conrad Schaefer, Henry Heinrichs, Dr. T. H. Van Camp. The Christian Mothers attended the service in a group. Clergy who came to attend the rites were; Msgr. P. Lynch, Carroll; Rev. James Fandel, Alton; Rev. Leo Lenz, Tempelton; Rev. John Schissel, Emmetsburg; Rev. Peter Mattes, Maple River; Rev. Newman Flanagan, Rev. Joseph Tolan, and Rev. Dominic Lavan, O.S. B., Sioux City; Rev. William Buchholz, Rockwell City; Rev. Harry Dailey, Ida Grove; Rev. L. P. Friedman, Remsen; Rev. Leo Harpenau, Storm Lake; Rev. John Howley, Fonda; Rev. Henry Pick, Dedham; Rev. Peter Sturm, Mt. Carmel; Rev. Arthur Poeckes, Carroll; Rev. George O' Brine, Charter Oak; Rev. Edward Vollmer, Lemars; Rev. Zeno Reising, Merrill; Rev. C. A. Knobbe, Granville. Relatives and friends from a distance were Pfc. Romaine
Boes, Camp Beale, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lampman, Ed. Thoma,
Miss Ida Thoma, Alverna Thoma, Mrs. Mary Ryan of Varina; Hugo Elsasser
of Rolfe; Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Riche, Gruver; Mrs. Wilfred Naberhaus,
Clinton; Frank Friedman, Peter Balk, Halbur; Mrs. And Mrs. Oliver
N. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. E. p. Baker, Mrs. Bernard Streit, Miss Gertrude
Hines, Pomeroy; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harrold, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Morrill,
Mrs. And Mrs. Albert Booge, Mr. and Mrs. William Lampe, Plamer;
Clarence Sporrer, Mrs. Rose Sporrer, Miss Alma Sporrer of Dedham
and numerous relative and friend form the surrounding vicinity.
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