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Elsche Janssen “Ella” <I>Geiken</I> Tammen

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Elsche Janssen “Ella” Geiken Tammen

Birth
Landkreis Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany
Death
11 Feb 1942 (aged 83)
Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois, USA
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Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Sec 20 Lot 28
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Born at Victorbur, Aurich, Niedersachsen, Germany, she was the daughter of Anton and Henrietta Johnson Geiken.
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Mrs. Ella Tammen, 83, died at 5 o'clock Wednesday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pearl LaPorte, 447 South Fourth avenue, following a lingering illness.

A resident of this city for 35 years, she is the mother-in-law of Alderman Edmund LaPorte.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon from the Rehr funeral home and one half hour later from St. John Evangelical church at Entrance and Oak streets. Burial will be in Mound Grove.

Born Sept. 8, 1858 in Hanover, Germany, she came to the United States at the age of 9 years, settling at Minonk. In 1876 she was married to Ihne Tammen. They were the parents of 13 children, 11 of whom survive: Mrs. Anna Kohl of Bourbonnais, Henry and Ihne of Limestone, Mrs. Kate Griswold of Aroma Park, Mrs. Etta Allgaier of Miller, S.D., Mrs. Pearl Laporte, Mrs. Leeta Diggle and Julius of Kankakee, Mrs. Ella Sterling, Mrs. Lida Mann and Raymond of New York.

Also surviving are a sister Mrs. Kate Vosperg of Wyndemere, N.D., 20 grandchildren and 24 Great-grandchildren. The husband and two sons preceded her in death.

She was a member of the Ladies Aid of her church and served as ...

Source: Unknown newspaper clipping of February 11, 1942
Born at Victorbur, Aurich, Niedersachsen, Germany, she was the daughter of Anton and Henrietta Johnson Geiken.
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Mrs. Ella Tammen, 83, died at 5 o'clock Wednesday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pearl LaPorte, 447 South Fourth avenue, following a lingering illness.

A resident of this city for 35 years, she is the mother-in-law of Alderman Edmund LaPorte.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon from the Rehr funeral home and one half hour later from St. John Evangelical church at Entrance and Oak streets. Burial will be in Mound Grove.

Born Sept. 8, 1858 in Hanover, Germany, she came to the United States at the age of 9 years, settling at Minonk. In 1876 she was married to Ihne Tammen. They were the parents of 13 children, 11 of whom survive: Mrs. Anna Kohl of Bourbonnais, Henry and Ihne of Limestone, Mrs. Kate Griswold of Aroma Park, Mrs. Etta Allgaier of Miller, S.D., Mrs. Pearl Laporte, Mrs. Leeta Diggle and Julius of Kankakee, Mrs. Ella Sterling, Mrs. Lida Mann and Raymond of New York.

Also surviving are a sister Mrs. Kate Vosperg of Wyndemere, N.D., 20 grandchildren and 24 Great-grandchildren. The husband and two sons preceded her in death.

She was a member of the Ladies Aid of her church and served as ...

Source: Unknown newspaper clipping of February 11, 1942

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Ihne Tammen
Born June 28, 1851
Died June 28, 1909
Ella His Wife
Born Sept. 3, 1858
Died Feb. 11, 1942
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