Peterman, Martha Elanora

1910 - 2007  (97 years)

• Name	Peterman, Martha Elanora  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	21 Mar 1910	Iowa Township, Benton, Iowa, USA   [1, 2, 3, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	1 May 1910	St Paul Lutheran Church (destroyed), Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA   [5]
  Confirmation	13 Apr 1924	St Paul Lutheran Church (destroyed), Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA   [5]
  Death	13 Nov 2007	Perry Lutheran Home, Perry, Dallas, Iowa, USA   [1, 3]
  Burial	Aft 13 Nov 2007	Violet Hill Cemetery, Perry, Dallas, Iowa, USA   [1]
  		Violet Hill Cemetery, Perry, IA
  Person ID	I18080	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Peterman, Henry Cort,   b. 18 Jan 1861, Garnavillo, Clayton, Iowa, USA d. 19 Apr 1935, Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, USA (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Rosburg, Martha Maria,   b. 17 Dec 1868, Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, USA d. 17 Nov 1917, Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	16 Jan 1887	St Paul Lutheran Church (destroyed), Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA   [6, 7]
  Family ID	F4096	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Niebuhr, Albert Frederick "Burt",   b. 13 Jul 1905, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA d. 17 Aug 1981, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	20 Jun 1931	St Paul Lutheran Church (destroyed), Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA   [1, 3, 5]
  Children	1. Niebuhr, Wilbert Wayne,   b. 30 Dec 1933, Ottawa, La Salle, Illinois, USA d. DECEASED  [natural]   2. Niebuhr, Marilyn June,   b. 25 Jun 1935, Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, USA d. DECEASED  [natural]   3. Niebuhr, Robert Dean   4. Niebuhr, Marlyce Joan   5. Niebuhr, Donald Kieth   6. Niebuhr, Martha Jean,   b. 15 Dec 1945, Webster City, Hamilton, Iowa, USA d. 17 Dec 1945, Webster City, Hamilton, Iowa, USA (Age 0 years)  [natural]   7. Niebuhr, Marcia Ann,   b. 14 Jan 1947, Webster City, Hamilton, Iowa, USA d. 31 Jan 2017, Jefferson, Greene, Iowa, USA (Age 70 years)  [natural]   8. Niebuhr, Delbert Duane
  Family ID	F82	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 21 Mar 1910 - Iowa Township, Benton, Iowa, USA 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 Marriage - 20 Jun 1931 - St Paul Lutheran Church (destroyed), Luzerne, Benton, Iowa, USA Death - 13 Nov 2007 - Perry Lutheran Home, Perry, Dallas, Iowa, USA Burial - Aft 13 Nov 2007 - Violet Hill Cemetery, Perry, Dallas, Iowa, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S327] WORLD: Find-a-Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/ [S2071] USA: Census 1910. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1727033 [S433] CONTRIBUTORS:. Kouba, Emil Rosburg: Deceased [S433] CONTRIBUTORS:. Thoma, James F: Self [S243] USA: IA: BENTON: St Paul Lutheran Church in Luzerne. https://iagenweb.org/benton/cem_trans/photos_lutheran_luzerne.htm [S362] USA: IA: County Marriages 1838-1934. https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1805551 [S433] CONTRIBUTORS:. Bowen, Patricia Louise nee Kuester. patbowen@hotmal.com