Obit: Platteter, La Verne (1914 - 1960)

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Surnames: Platteter, Bauman, Mitzlaff, Gebert, Jensen, Nolte

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 12/29/1960

Platteter, La Verne (18 July 1914 - Dec. 1960)

Funeral services were held Saturday, Dec. 24 at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Reuben Platteter, 46, of Iowa City, Iowa, at West Branch Methodist church, of which she was a member. The Rev. L. E. Bauman officiated.

Internment was made at Memory Gardens, Iowa City, Iowa.

The former La Verne Mitzlaff was the daughter of the late Louis and Elsie Mitzlaff. She was born July 18, 1914, in the town of Holton. She attended the Pickard school and was a graduate of the Abbotsford high school in 1932. On Sept. 4, 1937, she was married to Reuben Platteter at Dorchester.

The couple lived for 11 years on a farm in the town of Deer Creek, then moved to a farm in West Branch, Iowa, in 1949. She had been in poor health for several years.

She is survived by her husband; two sons, Bruce of Ames, Iowa; and Roger at home; three sisters, Mrs. John (Geraldine) Gebert of Stetsonville; Mrs. Chris (Beatrice) Jensen, Colby; and Mrs. Gordon (Adeline) Nolte, Milwaukee.

Attending the funeral from away were Mr. and Mrs. George Platteter and Mr. and Mrs. John Gebert, of Stetsonville; Mr. and Mrs. Chris Jensen, Colby; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Nolte, Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Platteter and Alvin Platteter, of Milwaukee.