This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#96517) Perry J. Bolsinger 1864-1942 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/clayton/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=96517> AUTHOR: Charlene Barnha DATE: 2/3/2006 at 19:22:11 Surnames: BOLSINGER,SMITH,PORTWINE,SHAW,MEYER,FUNK Funeral services for Perry Jackson Bolsinger, 77, were held here Monday afternoon at St. John’s American Lutheran church with the Rev. S.M. Becker, pastor officiating. Burial was in the Bolsinger cemetery. Mr. Bolsinger died Saturday at Elkader following a lingering illness. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bolsinger and was born April 26, 1864 at Osterdock. He was married in 1886 to Lou May Smith at Elkader and they settled on a farm near Osterdock. Surviving are one son, William of Wauzeka, Minn, four daughters, Mrs. Elsa Portwine and Mrs. Myrtle Shaw both of Elkader, Mrs. Henry Meyer of Guttenberg and Mrs. Elmer Funk of Colesburg, also 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. (source not given)