This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lorenzen, Becker, Perers Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5k.2ADE/1323 Message Board Post: Dubuque Telegraph-Herald November 17, 1936 Mrs. John Becker Maquoketa, Ia. -- Special: Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Harrison Funeral Home for Mrs. John Becker, 57, who died Sunday morning at an Independence hospital. The Rev. K. F. Weltner, Lutheran minister, officiated. Burial was in Union Center Cemetery, east of Maquoketa. As Sophia Lorenzen, she was born Sept. 21, 1879 in Jackson County. She is survived by her husband, John Becker, of near Andrew; one brother, Bahne C. Lorenzen of Maquoketa; and two sisters, Mrs. Marie Perers of Minter, Minn., and Miss Caroline Lorenzen of Maquoketa. She was a member of the Lutheran church.