Harlan CemeteryShelby County, IowaUploaded 2/27/2017 by
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[Email]Wirth, Martha Serena Lundby
b. August 25, 1893 d. January 11, 1956
Parents:
Soren A. Lundby (1848 - 1912)
Nicoline Johnson Lundby (1855 - 1932)
Spouse:
Frank Lewis Wirth (1893 - 1956)
Harlan Tribune
Harlan, Iowa
January 20, 1956
Martha Serena Lundby was born at Cuppy's Grove in Shelby County, Iowa on August 25, 1893 and died at Myrtue Memorial hospital in Harlan, Iowa on January 11, 1956 at the age of 62 years.
She was reared in this community and graduated from the Harlan High School, later attending the University of Nebraska.
On June 21, 1919 she was united in marriage to Frank L. Wirth and to this union one son was born. She had been very active in the Congregational Church and the Priscilla Society of that church for many years.
She is survived by her husband and one son, Frank Jr., and three sisters, Mrs Margaret Benzs, Mrs Laura Escher, and Mrs Edna Beaver, also nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters and one brother.
Funeral services were held at the Pauley funeral home Friday afternoon, January 13, with the Rev. John Paul McGee in charge. Burial was in the Harlan cemetery.
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Sect. 3M, Lot 103, Plot #7
Contributed by Shelby County, Sept. 2012 from their discontinued Access database, previously online at: http://www.cemeterymap.com/