State Center Woman Dies

Mrs Wilhelmina Oppermann Dies at Home of Daughter

Mrs Wilhelmina Oppermann, an old resident of Iowa, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs L C Jones, four and a half miles northeast of State Center, at 6 o'clock Tuesday morning, following a brief sickness. Mrs Oppermann has made her home with her daughter since the fall of 1918.

Mrs Oppermann was born in Braunschweiger, Germany, Oct 12, 1855, and came to America with her parents at the age of 2 years, the family settling at Platteville, Wis. Later they came to Iowa and made their home at Strawberry Point. She was married to H A Oppermann, at Strawberry Point, July 19, 1875, and they continued to make their home at that place, with the exception of three years spent in Missouri, until 1918, when they came to the home of the daughter at State Center.

Mr and Mrs Oppermann were the parents of seven children, six of whom survive. They are August, William, Emil and Fred Oppermann and Mrs L C Jones, all of State Center neighborhood, and Mrs Archie Northcott of Spring Valley, Minn. One child died in infancy.

Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the French Grove Lutheran church, following prayer services at the home of Mrs Jones at 1 o'clock. The services will be in charge of Rev A W Brauer.

April 15, 1920 State Center Enterprise.

Suggested Edit

Find a Grave contributor, Sis has made the following suggested edits.


Wilhelmine Opperman (29944476)

Suggested edit: Christian Opperman & Wilhelime/a "Mina/Meana/Minnie" geboren (née) Probst Opperman had eight children. Christian & Wilhelmine/a were born, married, and had their eldest child (Minnie here) in Braunschweig aka Brunswick, Lower Saxony aka Niedersachsen, Germany. They left out of Bremerhaven, on a ship called "Bremen," immigrating to America through New Orleans in 1858, bound for Wisconsin then finally just over the boarder in St Sebald / Strawberry Point, Clayton County, Iowa.

Minnie & her siblings were:

1. Wilhelmine "Mena/Minnie" geb. Opperman Opperman 1855-1920
m. 1876 H.August Opperman
{the one child born back in Germany, on ship's passenger manifest, age 2}
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2. Henry Carl "H.K." Opperman (Heinrich Karl) 1859-1941
1m. 1928 Caroline Meder Behrens
2m. Mary Griesinger

3. "Christian" / "Johann" Opperman (Johann Christian Friedrich) 1862-1878
m. not, died age 16

4. Mary Karolina geb. Opperman Kleinlein 1863-1938
m. John Leonard Gottlieb Kleinlein

5. William Daniel Opperman (Wilhelm Daniel) 1865-1948
m. 1891 Carolina Sophia Lindner

6. "Charles" Georg Karl Opperman 1868-1878
m. not, died age 10

7. John Peter Opperman (Johann Peder) 1871-1956
1m. 1894 Emma C. (orig Katharina) Eder (later Mrs. Leese)
2m. 1946 Mamie Folsom

8. "Lizzie" Barbara Opperman (Elizabeta Barbara) 1873-1889
m. not, died age 15
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