Del Norte Prospector dated Jan 16, 1948
Mrs. Johanna Neef, 80, resident of Wagon Wheel Gap, Creede and Del Norte for the past 24 years and mother of Mrs. O.E. Eagleton, died at Pocatello, Idaho Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Neef left here last summer and had been visiting her daughters in Durango, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Pocatello, Idaho the past six months. She took suddenly ill last Wednesday and never regained consciousness, dying in the Pocatello hospital. All four daughters were at their mother's bedside at her death.
Mrs. Neef was born Nov. 2, 1867 at Wittenberg, Germany and came to this United States when a girl. She was married in Kansas City, Missouri to Charles Neef in the early 1890s. They moved to Woodland Park, Colorado and then to Denver, Colorado where they raised their family. Mr. Neef was engaged in the meat packing industry for years. The moved to Sugar City and later to the San Luis Valley.
The Neefs operated the boarding house at Wagon Wheel Gap for a short time and then went to Creede and engaged in the retail meat business. They later came to Del Norte and purchased the meat department of the Weiss Mercantile store. Mr. Neef passed away in Creede in 1935.
The deceased was a member of the Lutheran Church and Pythian Sisters Order of Del Norte.
She is survived by her daughters, Mrs. O.E. (Emma) Eagleton; Mrs. Earl Barker of Durango; Mrs. Helen Walker of Salt Lake City, Utah; and Mrs. Johanna Briggs of Pocatello. The body was shipped to Del Norte for services and burial.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
Mrs. Johanna Neef, 80, resident of Wagon Wheel Gap, Creede and Del Norte for the past 24 years and mother of Mrs. O.E. Eagleton, died at Pocatello, Idaho Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Neef left here last summer and had been visiting her daughters in Durango, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Pocatello, Idaho the past six months. She took suddenly ill last Wednesday and never regained consciousness, dying in the Pocatello hospital. All four daughters were at their mother's bedside at her death.
Mrs. Neef was born Nov. 2, 1867 at Wittenberg, Germany and came to this United States when a girl. She was married in Kansas City, Missouri to Charles Neef in the early 1890s. They moved to Woodland Park, Colorado and then to Denver, Colorado where they raised their family. Mr. Neef was engaged in the meat packing industry for years. The moved to Sugar City and later to the San Luis Valley.
The Neefs operated the boarding house at Wagon Wheel Gap for a short time and then went to Creede and engaged in the retail meat business. They later came to Del Norte and purchased the meat department of the Weiss Mercantile store. Mr. Neef passed away in Creede in 1935.
The deceased was a member of the Lutheran Church and Pythian Sisters Order of Del Norte.
She is survived by her daughters, Mrs. O.E. (Emma) Eagleton; Mrs. Earl Barker of Durango; Mrs. Helen Walker of Salt Lake City, Utah; and Mrs. Johanna Briggs of Pocatello. The body was shipped to Del Norte for services and burial.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
Del Norte Prospector dated Jan 16, 1948
Mrs. Johanna Neef, 80, resident of Wagon Wheel Gap, Creede and Del Norte for the past 24 years and mother of Mrs. O.E. Eagleton, died at Pocatello, Idaho Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Neef left here last summer and had been visiting her daughters in Durango, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Pocatello, Idaho the past six months. She took suddenly ill last Wednesday and never regained consciousness, dying in the Pocatello hospital. All four daughters were at their mother's bedside at her death.
Mrs. Neef was born Nov. 2, 1867 at Wittenberg, Germany and came to this United States when a girl. She was married in Kansas City, Missouri to Charles Neef in the early 1890s. They moved to Woodland Park, Colorado and then to Denver, Colorado where they raised their family. Mr. Neef was engaged in the meat packing industry for years. The moved to Sugar City and later to the San Luis Valley.
The Neefs operated the boarding house at Wagon Wheel Gap for a short time and then went to Creede and engaged in the retail meat business. They later came to Del Norte and purchased the meat department of the Weiss Mercantile store. Mr. Neef passed away in Creede in 1935.
The deceased was a member of the Lutheran Church and Pythian Sisters Order of Del Norte.
She is survived by her daughters, Mrs. O.E. (Emma) Eagleton; Mrs. Earl Barker of Durango; Mrs. Helen Walker of Salt Lake City, Utah; and Mrs. Johanna Briggs of Pocatello. The body was shipped to Del Norte for services and burial.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
Mrs. Johanna Neef, 80, resident of Wagon Wheel Gap, Creede and Del Norte for the past 24 years and mother of Mrs. O.E. Eagleton, died at Pocatello, Idaho Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Neef left here last summer and had been visiting her daughters in Durango, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Pocatello, Idaho the past six months. She took suddenly ill last Wednesday and never regained consciousness, dying in the Pocatello hospital. All four daughters were at their mother's bedside at her death.
Mrs. Neef was born Nov. 2, 1867 at Wittenberg, Germany and came to this United States when a girl. She was married in Kansas City, Missouri to Charles Neef in the early 1890s. They moved to Woodland Park, Colorado and then to Denver, Colorado where they raised their family. Mr. Neef was engaged in the meat packing industry for years. The moved to Sugar City and later to the San Luis Valley.
The Neefs operated the boarding house at Wagon Wheel Gap for a short time and then went to Creede and engaged in the retail meat business. They later came to Del Norte and purchased the meat department of the Weiss Mercantile store. Mr. Neef passed away in Creede in 1935.
The deceased was a member of the Lutheran Church and Pythian Sisters Order of Del Norte.
She is survived by her daughters, Mrs. O.E. (Emma) Eagleton; Mrs. Earl Barker of Durango; Mrs. Helen Walker of Salt Lake City, Utah; and Mrs. Johanna Briggs of Pocatello. The body was shipped to Del Norte for services and burial.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
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