WILLIE ROWEDDER Willie Rowedder, 73, who spent virtually all of his life in the Manning vicinity, died at his home here at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 30, 1954. He had recently returned from St. Anthony Hospital in Carroll, where he had been a patient for five weeks.

Funeral services will be at p.m. Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church. Pastor John M. Ansorge will officiate. Burial will be in the Manning Cemetery. The body is remaining at the Ohde Funeral Home until the time of the services.

Mr. Rowedder, son of William and Anna (Kall) Rowedder, was born May 30, 1881, in Hayes Township, Crawford County, Iowa. With the exception of two and one-half years at Payette, Idaho, he had lived in the Manning vicinity all his life.

He was married June 8, 1904, to Helena Joachimsen. In 1906, they returned to Manning from Idaho and farmed for 31 years. Retiring in 1938, they moved into their home in Manning.

Mr. and Mrs. Rowedder celebrated their golden wedding anniversary this year.

Mr. Rowedder leaves his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Herbert (Verna) Frahm, Manning, and Mrs. Ione Kullbom, Atlantic; two sons, LeRoy, Los Angeles, California, and Lester, Manning; eight grandchildren, one of whom, Royce Rowedder, is in military service in Japan; three brothers, Herman, John, and Julius, of the Manning vicinity, and three sisters: Mrs. Emma Langbehn and Mrs. Amelia Schroeder, both of Woolsey, South Dakota, and Mrs. Hilda Hansen, Gray.

His parents, two brothers and three sisters are deceased.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, July 1, 1954