This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/208.1 Message Board Post: I have found the obituaries that you were looking for Martha Feenstra and her husband Walter Wrage. From the Saturday July 13, 1996 issue of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, page 3B Col 4. Martha Wrage: Colton - Martha Wrage, 88, formerly of the Parker and Hartford area, died Friday, July 12, 1996, at the Odd Fellows Nursing Home in Dell Rapids. Martha Feenstra was born Oct 8, 1907, in Friesland, the Netherlands. She moved to the United States in 1923 and grew up in the Parker and Hartford area. She became a U.S. citizen in 1940. She married Walter J. Wrage on Dec 2 1926, in Sioux Falls. They lived in the Parker and Hartford area until 1938, when they moved to the Colton-Lyons area. They farmed there until 1971, when they moved into Colton. Her husband died Jan 9, 1977. She was a member of United Methodist Church. Survivors include three sons: James of Colton; Donald of Dell Rapids; and Kenneth of Running Springs, Calif.; one daughter, Alice Krueger of Sioux Falls; 15 grand-children; 20 great-grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter; and one brother, Ids of the Netherlands. Services begin at 10:30 a.m. Monday at United Methodist Church in Colton, with burial in the Colton Cemetery. Visitation begins at 4 p.M. Sunday at Minnehaha Funeral Home in Colton, with the family present 4 to 5. From the Minnehaha County Courthouse, in the death records in Book 130 Page 960975, I found that Martha's father's name was Faye Feenstra and mother was Alice. She died of Pnuemonia and Pulmonary Empolus Taken from the January 11, 1977 issue of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. Walter J. Wrage: Colton, SD - Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the United Methodist Church for Walter J. Wrage, 80, who died Sunday at a Sioux Falls Hospital. A prayer service will be held Tuesday at 7:30 pm at the Minnehaha Funeral Home, Baltic. Mr Wrage was born July 7, 1896, in Turner County, South Dakota. He married Martha Feenstra Dec. 2 1926. They farmed in the Lyons and Colton area, retiring and moving to Colton in 1973. Survivors include his widow; one daughter, Mrs Alice Burke, Sioux Falls; three sons, James, Colton; Donald, Dell Rapids; and Kenneth, Skyforest, Calif.; five brothers, August, Moorhead, MN; Fritz, Hull, Iowa; Roy, Viborg; Henry and Jennings, both of Parker; and three sisters, Mrs Etta Gors, Viborg; Mrs May Muller, Montrose, and Mrs Elsie Fetzner, Davis. From the death records at the Minnehaha County Courthouse in Book 68 Page 770070, I found his father's name was Julius Wrage and Mother name was Cecelia Gosch. He died of a CVA -36 hours, generalized arteriosclersis for years You may obtain a certified copy of the death certificate from the Minnehaha County Courthouse at 415 N Dakota Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57104 for $10.00 each.