This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WOLTER, WILKE, SCHLITTER, OLDAG Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tk.2ADE/2386 Message Board Post: Rites Held For Mrs. L. Oldag Services were held Monday, January 6 at 1:30 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran church, Postville, for Gretchen Oldag with the Rev. Lenwood L. Monte officiating. Burial was in the Postville cemetery. Gretchen Frieda Oldag, daughter of Henry and Frieda Wilke Wolter, was born May 29, 1917 in Clayton County, Iowa and passed away January 2, 1969 at the Community Memorial Hospital, Postville, Iowa. She was baptized in the Lutheran Faith July 1, 1917 in the St. John church, Luana by Pastor F. Wettenberger. She received her schooling in the Luana schools. On October 10, 1937 she was united in marriage to Leslie Schlitter. The couple farmed in the Postville area until moving to Postville prior to the death of Mr. Schlitter on September 4. 1959. On February 8, 1964 she was united in marriage to Leonard Oldag and the couple made their home in Postville. She is survived by her husband Leonard, a daughter Diana, a stepdaughter Janice (Mrs. James Everman), a stepson John (Jack) now serving with the Armed Forces in Viet Nam, two brothers Arthur and George Wolter of Luana. She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother Karl (in infancy) and her first husband.