Mrs. Ida W. Riecken, 74, of
She was the widow of Philip Riecken who
died in 1951 and a life-long resident of Posey county.
Her church affiliation was with first
The body is at the Short-Niehaus Funeral
Home and will remain there through the funeral service set for
Mrs. Riecken was a daughter of George W.
Welborn and Amelia Curtis Welborn,
representatives of prominent early local families.
She is survived
by a son, Earl Riecken, Mobile, Ala; three daughters,
Mrs. George Warren and Miss Muriel Riecken, Ann
Arbor, Mich., and Mrs. Alvin G. Koerner, Wabash, Ind; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild; a
brother, Thomas C Welborn, Mt. Vernon, and two
sisters, Mrs. Ethel Gerton and Mrs. Dora Hood, both
of Mt. Vernon.
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Originally submitted by Betty Sellers