August Thiese Obit
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Former Resident Dies in Michigan
 Funeral Services were held February 17 at Rose Chapel, Algoe-Gundry Mortuary at Flint, Michigan, for August Thiese who died February 14, 1950. He was 82 years old.
 He was born in Guttenburg, Iowa, December 21, 1867, the son of Wm. and Magdalene Thiese.  In 1900, he moved to Alexandria, S. D., and to White Lake in 1919, moving to Flint, Michigan in 1936.
 He was married to Dorothea Ryberg in 1890, at Olewein, Iowa.
 He was a member of the Lutheran church.
 He is survived by four daughters: Esther Thiese and Mrs. Frank Kelly, both of Flint, Mich.; Mrs Charles Plymal of Dothan, Alabama; and Mrs Albert Fraser of Norwalk, Calif.; and two sons---Leonard of Pontiac, Mich.; and Wilfred of Flint, Mich.; 15 grandchildren, 4 great grandchildrn; a sister, Mrs Kate Bergman, of Rockwell, Iowa; and 3 brothers, Otto, George and Herman Thiese all of Iowa.
 He was proceeded in death by his wife and one son.
 Internment was made at the Green Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, South Dakota., on Monday, February 20th.