Obituaries

Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 26, 2008, at St. Paul ’s Lutheran Church in Fredericksburg with Pastor Ronnie Koch officiating.  Karen Downes will be the organist.

Interment will be in Rose Hill Cemetery, Fredericksburg with Craig Petersen, Randy Schneider, R.J. Meier, Mark Wendland, Harold Ross and Tom Reick as pallbearers.

Visitation will be held 4 – 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Hugeback & Chenoweth Funeral Home in Fredericksburg .  Memorials may be directed to St. Paul ’s Lutheran Church hymnal fund or Cedar Valley Hospice.

Margaretha (Margaret) Maria Kammeyer,  was born January 12, 1918, in rural Tripoli, Iowa, daughter of Christina (Lohmann) Ketels and Peter Ketels. She was baptized at home on the family farm by Pastor C. Meyer on February 6, 1918.

The family moved to Chickasaw County when Margaret was 9-years-old, attended rural school and graduating from the Alpha High School on May 28, 1936. She was confirmed by Pastor F.C. Ide at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Richfield, Iowa, on Sept. 4, 1932.

On April 20, 1939, she married Ray Herman Tank at St. Peters Lutheran Church, Richfield, Iowa, and gave birth to Robert Tank, July 29, 1940.  Ray died March 11, 1974 and Robert died March 27, 1976.

On Oct. 3, 1975, she married Herman Kammeyer at St. Paul ’s Lutheran Church in Fredericksburg, Iowa. Herman died Aug. 24, 1998. Margaret was a farmer and a nurse’s aide at Sunrise Nursing Home in Fredericksburg.

Margaret is survived by her three granddaughters, Connie Murray (Todd) of Chandler, Ariz; Deborah Reid (Don) of Tempe, Ariz; Lori Tank-Blackburn (Ben) of Waterloo, Iowa; daughter-in-law, Elsie Tank of Sun Lakes, Ariz; brother, Glen Ketels of New Hampton, Iowa; and three great-grandchildren, Cameron, Kelty and Grant Murray.

She is preceded in death by her parents; her husbands; her son; sister, Irene Leistikow and brother, Leslie Ketels.