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IDA KUSEL
Funeral services for Ida Kusel were held Tuesday, November 11, at 2:00 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church with the Rev. Edw. F. Heinicke officiating. Organist was Dorothy Kusel.
Interment was in Manning Cemetery with Orlo Nissen, Virgil Genzen, Merlyn Irlbeck, George Fischer, Alfred Ahrendsen and Cleo Chamberlain as casketbearers.
Ida, daughter of August and Mary Hansen Grau, was born February 19, 1891, in Hayes Township, Crawford County, Iowa. When she was two weeks old the family moved southeast of Manning where Ida attended Lincoln Township schools. In 1907 the family moved northeast of Manning.
On May 29, 1919, Ida was united in marriage with August Kusel. They farmed northeast of Manning. Her husband died on August 10, 1957, and Ida continued to make her home on the farm. In 1975, she moved to Manning, having spent 55 years on the same farmstead. Three years ago she moved to the Manilla Manor Nursing Home where she died on November 8, 1980, at the age of 89 years, 8 months, and 19 days.
Ida was baptized and became a member of the Zion Lutheran Church in Manning in 1955.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a son, Amos, a step-daughter, Elsie Schroeder, two brothers, Johnnie (as a child) and Emil Grau, and a sister, Sophia Rothfolk.
Ida is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Hugo Ahrendsen of Manning, and a son, Melvin of Manning; also a step-son, Herman Kusel of Omaha; two sisters, Clara Cox of the Manilla Manor Nursing Home, Laura, Mrs. Elmer Alwill of Manning, and one brother, Herman Grau of Manning, as well as grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends.
Ingo
Brockmann
