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MRS. MARTHA JANE BECKERPONCA, Neb. — Special: Mrs. Martha Jane Becker, 93, died Friday at a nursing home here after a brief Illness. jFuneral services will be at 2 j p.m. Monday at Immanuel Lu-j the ran Church, Missouri synod, j at Ponca. The Rev. Oscar Mar- j quardt will officiate. Burial will I be in Ponca Cemetery under di- recti on of the Mohr Funeral Home. 'Mrs. Becker was born Nov. J11. 1871, at Martinsburg. Neb.;The former Martha Stark, shejwas married to George Becker,,April 3, 1893, in Chicago. Mr.Becker died June 15, 1929. The;Beckers lived in Chicago before'moving to Sioux City. FromSioux City they moved to afarm northwest of Ponca. Mrs. iBecker left the farm in 1932 andmoved to Ponca, where she re-!sided since. She was confirmed;in the Martinsburg Lutheran Church Aon! 19. 1885.*Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Victoria Peterson of Galahad, Alberta, Canada, and Mrs. Irene Tower of Portland,! Ore.: a son, Elmore Becker of Sioux City: two brothers, Gus Stark of Bridgeport. Neb., and John Stark of Martinsburg, Neb., rune grandchildren and 21 great, grandchildren. i
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Sioux City Sunday Journal
Sioux City, Iowa, US
Sun, Aug 16, 1964
Page 124
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