Martha (Stahlecker) Adolf -2002

Lifelong Kit Carson County resident Martha Sophia Adolf passed away Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2002, at Grace Manor Care Center in Burlington. She was 96 years old.  Martha was born July 22, 1906, to John and Marla (Dobler) Stahlecker in Bethune. She attended a country school north of Bethune through the 8th grade. On Oct. 25, 1925, Martha married John Adolf in Mosca. To this marriage four children were born; Rudolph, Ernst, Louise and Esther.  Martha was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church of Bethune and worked as a homemaker in her own home.

Martha was preceded in death by her parents; her husband John; her brothers Ed and Martin Stahlecker; one infant sister, Dorthea; her sisters Anna Felt, Mary Kramer and Theresia Kramer; her daughter-in-law Lois Adolf; and one grandson, Wesley Adolf. She is survived by her two sons - Rudolph (Rudy) Adolf of Yuma, and Ernst Adolf of Canyon City; two daughters - Louise Frohman of Hay Springs, Neb., and Esther Weisshaar of Burlington; 15 grandchildren; 24 great grandchildren; 2 great-great grandchildren; two brothers, Andy Stahlecker of Alamosa and Walter Stahlecker of Colorado Springs; and two sisters Lydia Adolf of Bethune and Dorothy Klein of Wray.

Services for Mrs. Adolf were Saturday, Nov. 23, 2002, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Bethune. Pastor Wesley Dunbar officiated the services and burial followed at the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery.
Memorials can be made in Martha's name to the Immanuel Lutheran Church and maybe left at The Bank of Burlington. Arrangements made by Love Funeral Home of Burlington.