Rudolph "Pete" Ortgies 1923-1946

ORTGIES, DUNCAN, KILLIAN, TUETKEN, PYE, POPPE

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Date: 1/18/2021 at 08:16:50

3 October 1946 - The Anamosa Journal

Rudolph "Pete" Ortgies, 23, died Thursday at 6 a.m. at the University hospital in Iowa City where he was taken Monday, Sept. 23, suffering with poliomyelitis. He had been in an iron lung since Wednesday, Sept. 25.

Body is at the Smykil Home for Funerals. Funeral arrangements have not been made pending word from relatives in Californai.

Rudolph, son of Mrs. Dena Ortgies and the late Louis Ortgies, was a life-long resident of Castle Grove township.

His is survived by his wife, the former Imogene Duncan and two children, Judith, 2, and Diane, not yet a year old; his mother, one brother, Lawrence, Anamosa; and five sisters, Helen and Mrs. Laura Killian, San Francisco, Calif.; Mrs. Minnie Tuetken, Dorothy and Wilma, Anamosa.

A sister, Mrs. Byrdena Pye, died of polio in November, 1944, and his father died in October, 1945.

10 October 1946 - The Anamosa Journal

Funeral services for Rudolph L. "Pete" Ortgies, 23, who died Oct. 3 at the University hospital, Iowa City, of infantile paralysis, was held Monday afternoon at St. Paul's Lutheran church. Rev. H. L. Buesing was the officiating pastor and Smykil Home for Funerals was in charge of arrangements. Burial was made at Riverside cemetery. Pallbearers were Robert Bartell, George Brown, Clair Eggiman, Stuart Fairbanks, Robert Gray and Rex Heiken.

Rudolph Lewis, third child and oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ortgies, was born in Jones county, Monticello, Sept. 7, 1923. He was baptized at the home of his parents Sept. 30, 1923, and was confirmed March 21, 1937 in the Lutheran faith.

He spent his boyhood and young manhood assisting his father on the farm and attended the Deer Creek No. Five and Bunker Hill rural schools.

On April 1, 1944, he was married to Miss Imogene Duncan. Following their marriage they lived at Monticello two years, and in March of this year they moved to the Meade farm a mile northeast of Anamosa where he undertook the cultivation and management of his and his mother's farms.

He was taken to the University hospital, Iowa City, Sept. 23. For several days his condition seemed quite hopeful, even after he was placed into a respirator, but a week later his condition became critical, and he died at 6 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 3.

He was a lifelong member of the American Lutheran church, the most number of years at Castle Grove, and the last two years at St. Paul's of Anamosa.

Surviving are his wife, two daughters, Judith Ann and Diane Laree, his mother, one brother, Lawrence, and five sisters, Helen, San Francisco, Calif.; Minnie, Mrs. Gert Tuetken, Monticello; Laura, Mrs. William Killian, San Francisco, Dorothy and Wilma at home.

One sister, Byrdena, Mrs. Allen Poppe, preceded him in death in 1944 and his father died in 1945.