Dorothea C Drake

The funeral service for Mrs. Charles Drake, Northfield resident for the past 25 years, was held Tuesday afternoon, April 11, at the Bierman Funeral chapel. The Rev. A. T. Koehler, pastor of Trinity Lutheran church, officiated. Hymns were sung by Mrs. Burton Paulsen who also played the organ. Interment was in Northfield cemetery. The pallbearers were a grandson, Robert Gilomen, and five great-grandsons, Donald, Dale and Richard Gilomen. Ronald Olinger and Larry Holt. Mrs. Drake, nee Dorothea Hansen, was born December 1, 1869, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, the daughter of James and Mary Hansen. She came with her parents to the United States when she was a small girl, the family settling at Davenport, Iowa. She was married at Rock Valley, Iowa, in 1890 to Charles Drake and the couple farmed in that area the first few years. In 1899, they moved to Worthington community. When they came to Northfield in 1935, they purchased the Budd home at 202 West Fifth. Mr. Drake died in January, 1948. For about ten years, Mrs. Drake was a resident of the Lindesmith rest home and only recently moved to the Woods rest home at Faribault where she died on Saturday, April 8, 1961. She is survived by two sons, Elmer of Los Angeles, Calif., and Raymond of St. Peter; three daughters, Mrs. John Gilomen (Violetta) of Dundas, Mrs. A. J. Talsma (Jessie) of Worthington and Mrs. Fred Rank (Marian) of Lester, Iowa; 13 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Celia Kuchel of Holstein, Iowa. Besides her husband, she was preceded in death in 1949 by a son, Ernest, who lived at Worthington.