Father Eugene Wehner officiated at the services. Mrs. Maureen Munch was organist and casketbearers were Martin Irgens, John Resch, Ed Ethen, Delbert Zeltinger, Frank Zeltinger Jr., and Jerome Zeltinger. Interment was in St. Charles Catholic Cemetery, Tolley, with Thompson-Larson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Lena Zeltinger was born January 23, 1899, at Spring Hill, Minnesota, a daughter of Ignatius and Katie Zeltinger. The family moved to Tolley in 1900 to homestead. She attended schools at Tolley and Kenmare and earned a teacher’s certificate at Dakota Northwestern University, Minot. For 18 years she taught in the rural Tolley, Greene and Kenmare areas and for a time in a parochial school at Strasburg. She married Clement C. Resch June 6, 1935, at Kenmare. They farmed south of Tolley.
She was a member of Sts. Peter and Paul Church and was organist there for many years, St. Mary’s Altar Society, and was clerk of the Roosevelt Township, Renville County School Board for many years.
Survivors are her husband; daughter, Rita Resch, Warrensburg, Mo.; brother, Frank Zeltinger, Kenmare; sisters, Louise Zeltinger and Anne Rowe, both Phoenix, Arizona, Clara Ahmann, Helena, Montana, Marie Rabuse, Paola, Kansas, Loretta Shores, Veronia, Oregon.
From the scrapbook of Lillian Lundgren Zeltinger who passed away in 1997. Supplied by Nancy Zeltinger Austin.
Father Eugene Wehner officiated at the services. Mrs. Maureen Munch was organist and casketbearers were Martin Irgens, John Resch, Ed Ethen, Delbert Zeltinger, Frank Zeltinger Jr., and Jerome Zeltinger. Interment was in St. Charles Catholic Cemetery, Tolley, with Thompson-Larson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Lena Zeltinger was born January 23, 1899, at Spring Hill, Minnesota, a daughter of Ignatius and Katie Zeltinger. The family moved to Tolley in 1900 to homestead. She attended schools at Tolley and Kenmare and earned a teacher’s certificate at Dakota Northwestern University, Minot. For 18 years she taught in the rural Tolley, Greene and Kenmare areas and for a time in a parochial school at Strasburg. She married Clement C. Resch June 6, 1935, at Kenmare. They farmed south of Tolley.
She was a member of Sts. Peter and Paul Church and was organist there for many years, St. Mary’s Altar Society, and was clerk of the Roosevelt Township, Renville County School Board for many years.
Survivors are her husband; daughter, Rita Resch, Warrensburg, Mo.; brother, Frank Zeltinger, Kenmare; sisters, Louise Zeltinger and Anne Rowe, both Phoenix, Arizona, Clara Ahmann, Helena, Montana, Marie Rabuse, Paola, Kansas, Loretta Shores, Veronia, Oregon.
From the scrapbook of Lillian Lundgren Zeltinger who passed away in 1997. Supplied by Nancy Zeltinger Austin.
Family Members
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Mathias Anton Zeltinger
1897–1962
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Louise Frances Zeltinger
1900–1991
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Frank Xavier Zeltinger Sr
1902–1997
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John Edward Zeltinger
1904–1965
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Clara M Zeltinger Ahmann
1905–2004
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Anne T. Zeltinger Rowe
1907–1996
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Marie Theresa Zeltinger Rabuse
1909–2000
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Otillie Mary Zeltinger
1910–1922
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Raymond N Zeltinger
1912–1912
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Edward Henry Zeltinger
1913–1959
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Loretta Blondine Zeltinger Shores
1918–2014
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