OBITUARY
Austin Daily Herald
Tuesday August 16, 1955
Dora Dovenberg Furtney was born October 25, 1867, at Lawrenceburg,
Indiana, the daughter of Andrew Dovenberg and Barbara Rush Dovenberg. She
died at St. Olaf Hospital, Austin, Monday, August 15, following an illness
of 6 weeks.
On June 14, 1888, she was united in marriage to John Furtney at Austin and to them were born three children.
Mrs. Furtney was a resident of Austin all of her married life and she was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are a son, Raymond L. Furtney and a daughter, Mrs. Henry Bauer, (Dorothy)., both of Austin, and another daughter, Mrs. Charles Orth, (Hazel), Brownsdale.
Also surviving are two brothers, George Dovenberg, Winona, and Edward Dovenberg, Austin, two sisters, Cora Dovenberg, Austin, and Mrs. Emma Gluck, Milwaukee, seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
She was proceeded in death by her husband in 1927 and by 3 brothers and a sister.
Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, August 17, at the Mayer Funeral Home, with the Rev. Lyndon Schendel officiating. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery.
Out-of-town people attending the funeral services were George Dovenberg and Mrs. Harry Miller, Winona, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Dovenberg, West Salem, Wis., Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dovenberg, Minneapolis, Mrs. Ellen Dovenberg and Louella, Hopkins, Mrs. Norman Bale, Hopkins, Mrs. Helen Bauer and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Strohfus, Watertown, S.D. and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Griffith, Rochester.
DEATHS
Austin Daily Herald
Tuesday, August 16, 1955
MRS. DORA FURTNEY
Mrs. Dora Furtney, 87, 409 North 3rd Street, died at St. Olaf Hospital Monday Afternoon.
Surviving are a son, Raymond Furtney, Austin, two daughters, Mrs. Charles Orth, Brownsdale, and Mrs. Henry Bauer, Austin, two brothers, George Dovenberg, Winona, Minnesota and Edward Dovenberg, Austin; two sisters, Miss Cora Dovenberg, Austin, and Mrs. George Gluck, Milwaukee.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dora Furtney, who died at St. Olaf Hospital
Monday afternoon, will be held at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at Mayer
Funeral Home with the Rev. Lyndon Schendel, officiating. Burial will be
in Oakwood Cemetery.
Austin Daily Herald
Wednesday, August 17, 1955
Out of town people attending the funeral services were George Dovenberg
and Mrs. Harry Miller, Winona,Minnesota, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Dovenberg,
West Salem, Wisconsin, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dovenberg, Minneapolis, Mrs.
Ellen Dovenberg and Louella, Hopkins, Minnesota, Mrs. Norman Bale, Hopkins,
Minnesota, Mrs. Helen Bauer and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Strohfus, Watertown,
South Dakota and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Griffith, Rochester, Minnesota.
Submitted to MNGenWeb by Dorothy Kunz, Sept. 2007
He was married November 23, 1841 to Charlotte Hilker. They resided in
Blenheim until 1864 and later to Milwaukee and in 1868 came to Austin
where they have since resided.
The entrance of death twice in such quick succession turns the sympathy of
the whole community to this grief stricken home where long and continued
sickness have sorely tried the bodily strength and death has too frequently
wrung the heart.
Hospital after an illness that covered a period of about ten years. For
the past six months he had been a patient at the hospital.