Born : 19 Jun 1870
Date : 29 Sep 1959
Location : St. Michael's Cemetery, Littleton, IA
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at St. John's Lutheran church in Bennington township for Mrs. Emilie M. Tribon, 89, who died Friday at the home of a daughter in Mansfield, Minn., of complications incident to advanced age.
The Rev. William Burrack, pastor, will officiate and burial will be in Forks cemetery in Buchanan county.
The body is now at the Freeborn funeral home in Albert Lea, Minn., and will be taken to Mansfield for services at the Lutheran church there at 10 a. m. tomorrow.
The body will be taken from Mansfield to the Waterloo Chapel of Memories tomorrow afternoon and then to the church at noon Tuesday. Friends may call at the Chapel of Memories after 4 p. m. tomorrow.
Mrs. Tribon was born June 19, 1870, in Buchanan county, the daughter of August and Wilhelmina Fratzke. She was married on Jan. 28, 1888, to Herman Tribon.
They farmed near Dunkerton until Mr. Tribon died in 1910. Mrs. Tribon lived most of her life in the community with her daughters. She had been an invalid since 1956.
Mrs. Tribon was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Bennington township for 52 years.
Surviving are six daughters Mrs. Carl Adix, Mansfield Minn., Mrs. Ludwig Wissenk, Dunkerton, Mrs. Clarence Diercks, Dunkerton, Mrs. Holda Schmidt, 221 Cutler St., Mrs. John Frome, Collegeville, Pa. and Mrs. Arthur Mixdorf, 226 Elmwood St.; 22 grandchildren; a brother, Richard Fratzke, Oelwein; two sisters, Mrs. George Knott, Independence, Ore. and Mrs. Ida Luloff, St. Charles, Minn.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, three sons, a daughter, four brothers and two sisters.
Waterloo Daily Courier - Sep 27, 1959
