Emil Mittelstaedt

THE ENID EVENTS Enid, Garfield Co., OK

May 20, 1937 Page 2, section A, column 4

Submitted by: Emily Jordan

Recent Deaths

MITTELSTAEDT - Funeral for Emil Mittelstaedt, Garfield county pioneer resident, was held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in St. Paul's Lutheran Church with Rev. O.K. Hensel officiating. Burial was in the Lutheran cemetery at Fairmont.

Mittelstaedt, who died Sunday morning at his home, 1425 East Randolph, after a week's illness, came to Oklahoma from Iowa in 1899.

Mittelstaedt is survived by his wife, three daughters, Mrs. Paul Diven of Enid; Mrs. Fred Polwort, of Troy, Ill.; Mrs. Henry Planetz, of Waterville, Wash.; and three sons, Martin Mittelstaedt of Enid; Ted Mittelstaedt of Douglas, Wash.; and Andred Mittelstaedt of Fairmont.

Emil Mittelstaedt

THE ENID EVENTS Enid, Garfield Co., OK

May 27, 1937 Page 4, section A, column 3

Submitted by: Emily Jordan

Near Fairmont

Emil Mittlesteadt was born in Germany in 1862. He immigrated to this country in 1889 when 18 years of age and settled at Independence, Iowa. There he was married in 1881. He came to Oklahoma in 1891 and lived on a farm four miles northwest of Fairmont until 1914 when he went to the state of Washington, where he lived, later going to Orange, Calif., for several years. He returned to Oklahoma in 1926, and since that time, Enid has been their home.

He died very unexpectedly at his home Saturday evening, May 15, 1937, having lived 75 years, 1 month and 9 days.

Mr. and Mrs. Mittlesteadt celebrated their golden wedding anniversary just a month ago.

Surviving relatives are his widow, three sons, Martin of Enid, Theodore of Douglas, Wash.; Andrew of Fairmont; three daughters, Mrs. Elsie Polwort of Troy, Ill.; Mrs. Elizabeth Diven of Enid; and Mrs. Alvina Planetz of Waterville, Wash. Also 22 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from the St. Paul's Lutheran church in Enid and the remains interred in the Zion cemetery near Fairmont.

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