1. | Thekla O. Poulsen ble født 15 Apr 1900 , Yankton, Yankton Co, SD; døde Jan 1985, Sturgis, Meade Co, South Dakota, USA. Notater:
Obituary from Meade County Times-Tribune* at Sturgis, SD, issue of January 30, 1985:
Services held for retired school teacher Thekla Mutchler, 84
Funeral services for Thekla O. Mutchler, 84, were Monday at the First Presbyterian Church in Sturgis.
Pastor Jack Whetzel conducted the services. Burial was in the Bear Butte cemetery with arrangements by the F. O. Jolley Funeral Home of Sturgis.
A memorial has been established to the Sturgis Community Nursing Home. She died Thursday evening at the Sturgis Community Nursing Home.
Thekla Mutchler was born Apr. 15, 1900, at Yankton to Peter and Selma Paulson. She lived at Bonesteel until she was 6-years-old, when she began living with Jim and Dora Brown.
In 1909, they moved to Fairpoint in Meade County. She attended Newell High School and Black Hills State College at Spearfish. May 26, 1923, she married Tommy Olson at Sturgis. The couple moved to a ranch near Cedar Canyon. She taught at various schools in rural Meade and Perkins counties.
In 1946, she moved to Sturgis and taught primary grades at Whitewood for 10 years. On May 19, 1951, she married John Mutchler in Rapid City. She continued to teach for the Meade school district and retired in 1962 after 39 1/2 years of teaching.
Mutchler had lived at the nursing home since July 1980. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Community Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, past president of the South Dakota Education Association, Sturgis Senior Citizens, and various educational organizations.
Surviving are her husband, John Mutchler, Sturgis; two daughters, Mrs. Ida Hull, Rapid City; and Mrs. Roger (Alva) Stone, Sturgis; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Helen Miller**, Sturgis; and Mrs. Joyce Mills, Rapid City; three stepsons, Harold Mutchler, Cheyenne, Wy; Erven Mutchler, Carlin, WY; and Bob Mutchler,
(town unreadable), WA; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and numerous step-grandchildren
and step-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one sister and a half-sister.
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* I was editor and part owner of this newspaper until selling it in 1980.
** Helen Miller goes to my church, Grace Lutheran in Sturgis.
I made a printout of this obituary at the Sturgis Library this afternoon. If you send me your snail address,
I'll mail it off to you. Next, I'll check my Meade County books to see if I can find anything on Thekla.
Enjoy!
Thekla giftet seg med Thomas Adolph Olson 26 Mai 1923 (Skilt), Sturgis, Meade Co, South Dakota, USA, og ble skilt. Thomas (sønn av Marcus Olson og Anna M Thompson) ble født 31 Jul 1894 , Spink, South Dakota; døde Jul 1986, Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, USA. [Gruppeskjema] [Familiediagram]
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- 2. Ida Ellen Olson ble født 28 Okt 1926 , Sturgis, Meade Co, South Dakota, USA; døde 31 Okt 2010, Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, USA.
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Thekla giftet seg med John Mutchler 19 Mai 1959, Sturgis, Meade Co, South Dakota, USA. John ble født 1 Jul 1896; døde 1 Aug 1988, Sturgis, Meade Co, South Dakota, USA. [Gruppeskjema] [Familiediagram]
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