Buried next to Caroline Louise Ahrendsen
Obit in The Correctionville News, 28 November 1957, page 1:
Hans Peter Ahrendsen was born in Hosun, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, April 23, 1875, and was baptized and confirmed a Lutheran in Germany.
At the age of 14 he came to America settling in Jones Co., Iowa, where he met and married Caroline Jurgensen and engaged in farming for a number of years.
He came to western Iowa in 1917 to continue farming in the Correctionville community for two years and moved into Correctionville in November 1919 where he has since resided.
For 23 years he was employed by the Iowa State Highway Commission, retiring in 1942.
Mrs. Ahrendsen passed away in October 1954 and since that time he has been in failing health, although he remained active until a month ago when he became critically ill and was bedfast ten days.
He passed away November 22, 1957, at the age of 82.
He leaves to mourn his passing his six children, William of Correctionville, Herman of Harrison, Idaho, Adolph of Salem, Oregon, Hans H. of Sioux City, Mrs. Kathrin Cobb of Lake City and Mrs. Hertha Irwin of Correctionville, 11 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Carstensen, Mrs. Martin Petersen, and Mrs. Thomas Petersen, all of Oxford Junction, Iowa, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services were held Monday, November 25, 1957, at 2 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church in Correctionville with the pastor, Rev. David Pankow, officiating. Burial was in the Correctionville Cemetery
Obit in The Correctionville News, 28 November 1957, page 1:
Hans Peter Ahrendsen was born in Hosun, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, April 23, 1875, and was baptized and confirmed a Lutheran in Germany.
At the age of 14 he came to America settling in Jones Co., Iowa, where he met and married Caroline Jurgensen and engaged in farming for a number of years.
He came to western Iowa in 1917 to continue farming in the Correctionville community for two years and moved into Correctionville in November 1919 where he has since resided.
For 23 years he was employed by the Iowa State Highway Commission, retiring in 1942.
Mrs. Ahrendsen passed away in October 1954 and since that time he has been in failing health, although he remained active until a month ago when he became critically ill and was bedfast ten days.
He passed away November 22, 1957, at the age of 82.
He leaves to mourn his passing his six children, William of Correctionville, Herman of Harrison, Idaho, Adolph of Salem, Oregon, Hans H. of Sioux City, Mrs. Kathrin Cobb of Lake City and Mrs. Hertha Irwin of Correctionville, 11 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Carstensen, Mrs. Martin Petersen, and Mrs. Thomas Petersen, all of Oxford Junction, Iowa, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services were held Monday, November 25, 1957, at 2 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church in Correctionville with the pastor, Rev. David Pankow, officiating. Burial was in the Correctionville Cemetery
Buried next to Caroline Louise Ahrendsen
Obit in The Correctionville News, 28 November 1957, page 1:
Hans Peter Ahrendsen was born in Hosun, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, April 23, 1875, and was baptized and confirmed a Lutheran in Germany.
At the age of 14 he came to America settling in Jones Co., Iowa, where he met and married Caroline Jurgensen and engaged in farming for a number of years.
He came to western Iowa in 1917 to continue farming in the Correctionville community for two years and moved into Correctionville in November 1919 where he has since resided.
For 23 years he was employed by the Iowa State Highway Commission, retiring in 1942.
Mrs. Ahrendsen passed away in October 1954 and since that time he has been in failing health, although he remained active until a month ago when he became critically ill and was bedfast ten days.
He passed away November 22, 1957, at the age of 82.
He leaves to mourn his passing his six children, William of Correctionville, Herman of Harrison, Idaho, Adolph of Salem, Oregon, Hans H. of Sioux City, Mrs. Kathrin Cobb of Lake City and Mrs. Hertha Irwin of Correctionville, 11 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Carstensen, Mrs. Martin Petersen, and Mrs. Thomas Petersen, all of Oxford Junction, Iowa, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services were held Monday, November 25, 1957, at 2 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church in Correctionville with the pastor, Rev. David Pankow, officiating. Burial was in the Correctionville Cemetery
Obit in The Correctionville News, 28 November 1957, page 1:
Hans Peter Ahrendsen was born in Hosun, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, April 23, 1875, and was baptized and confirmed a Lutheran in Germany.
At the age of 14 he came to America settling in Jones Co., Iowa, where he met and married Caroline Jurgensen and engaged in farming for a number of years.
He came to western Iowa in 1917 to continue farming in the Correctionville community for two years and moved into Correctionville in November 1919 where he has since resided.
For 23 years he was employed by the Iowa State Highway Commission, retiring in 1942.
Mrs. Ahrendsen passed away in October 1954 and since that time he has been in failing health, although he remained active until a month ago when he became critically ill and was bedfast ten days.
He passed away November 22, 1957, at the age of 82.
He leaves to mourn his passing his six children, William of Correctionville, Herman of Harrison, Idaho, Adolph of Salem, Oregon, Hans H. of Sioux City, Mrs. Kathrin Cobb of Lake City and Mrs. Hertha Irwin of Correctionville, 11 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Carstensen, Mrs. Martin Petersen, and Mrs. Thomas Petersen, all of Oxford Junction, Iowa, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services were held Monday, November 25, 1957, at 2 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church in Correctionville with the pastor, Rev. David Pankow, officiating. Burial was in the Correctionville Cemetery
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