William married Whalen, Kelly [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Niebuhr, Marlyce Joan [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Individuals: Bowen, Patricia Louise nee' Kuester, Full place of death.

Albert married Peterman, Martha Elanora on 20 Jun 1931 in St Paul Lutheran Church (destroyed), Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA. Martha (daughter of Peterman, Henry Cort and Rosburg, Martha Maria) was born on 21 Mar 1910 in Iowa Township, Benton, Iowa, USA; died on 13 Nov 2007 in Perry Lutheran Home, Perry, Dallas, Iowa, USA; was buried after 13 Nov 2007 in Violet Hill Cemetery, Perry, Dallas, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1 May 1910, St Paul Lutheran Church (destroyed), Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA
• Confirmation: 13 Apr 1924, St Paul Lutheran Church (destroyed), Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA

Notes:

She moved to a retirement home in Perry, IA in 1994. She said that her Mom died when she was only 7 years old. She moved in with Albert and Mary Kuester until they moved to Minnesota a few years later. Then Martin and Mamie Studt took her in and raised her. The Studts lived on 'Main' street in Luzerne which was about a block from the Chicago and Northwestern Rail Road tracks. During world War I she was among the kids of the town who would run down to the tracks when a troop train would pass through. (Somehow they could tell by the sound of the whistle.) The troops would throw pieces of hardtack out the window of the train to the kids, and they would pick it up and eat it. The day the war ended Dorothy Kouba heard about it first and came running up the street to the Studt house banging two pot lids together to make noise. Martha joined her with two more kids and they went marching around town in a "Victory Parade" with the rest of the kids! She said that someone made a dummy resembling the Kaiser and hung it from a tree. She said it hung there for almost two years!

Martha Niebuhr, age 97, of Perry died on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at Perry Lutheran Home in Perry.

Martha Eleanora Niebuhr was born on March 21, 1910 at Luzerne, IA to Heinrich Cort Peterman and Martha Maria (Rosburg) Peterman. Martha's mother died when she was 7 years old and she was raised by an Aunt and Uncle, Mayme and Martin Studt of Luzerne, Iowa. She was confirmed into the Lutheran Faith on April 13, 1924 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Luzerne. During grade school she attended at Luzerne and graduated from Belle Plaine High School in 1928. In 1929 she taught country school in Benton County. She met Albert (Bert) Niebuhr and they were married on June 20, 1931 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Luzerne. Martha was a mother and home maker and assisted Bert at the Perry Lutheran Home as office manager.

Martha was an active member of her church, serving as church organist in Burlington, IA. As a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Webster City, IA, and Trinity Lutheran Church in Perry, IA she sang in the church choir, was a member of LWML and many other activities.

She was preceded in death by her Parents Heinrich and Martha Peterman, a daughter Martha on December 17, 1945, husband, Bert on August 21, 1981, a granddaughter Denise Albright, grandson Bart Miller, a daughter-in-law Nancy Niebuhr, 2 brothers; Edward & Eldo Peterman, and a sister Mary Kuester.

She is survived by children; Wilbert and DeLaine Niebuhr of Peosta, IA, Marilyn and Darold Albright of Iowa City, IA, Robert and Sherry Niebuhr of Savannah, MO, Marlyce and William Hollis of Dunnellon, FL, Donald and Beth Niebuhr of Prescott, AZ, Marcia and William Ostlund of Jefferson, IA, and Delbert "Butch" and Denise Niebuhr of Perry, IA, and 23 grandchildren, many great and great great grandchildren.