Leonora Lutgen

[GreenSub24]

I'm looking to find out what became of Leonora. It's like she vanished into thin air. She was born 19Aug1888 in West Bend,Palo Alto,Iowa. The last known place she resided was in Dubuque,  Iowa in 1915. She had a Twin Brother Leo George Lutgen (1888-1981). Her Parents were Mathias Lutgen (1857-1915) & Rose Anne (McCloskey) Lutgen (1855-1931). The information I found was from Ancestry.  Any help would be much appreciated.

[oldohiohome]

This might be a dead end, but do you know who Theresa Dumuth is? She is in the same household as Leonora in 1910 and is called the granddaughter of Mathias. Is she Leonora's daughter? Josephine's? or someone else's? If she is Leonora's child, does it help you find her?

1910 Census, Dubuque
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML15-FJR?lang=en

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Regarding the 1915 census. Is this the link you have to the record you are referring to:
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1084/records/9544325
The image says the person is male, married, and works as a plasterer.

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other than that, I don't have much.

[oldohiohome]

Finding her parents' and siblings' obituaries, if any, might provide some information about Leonora. You posted the parents' deaths, and findagrave for her parents gives dates of death for some of her siblings:

Thomas 1887
Anna 1897
Frank March 1972, buried Worth County, Iowa, d Mason City, Iowa
Edward 2 October 1945, buied Minneapolis
James Emmet 1975

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127387477/rose_anne-lutgen

Note: I realize you might know all this, but it will save others on the thread some time in looking for the obits.

[oldohiohome]

Josephine was alive, age 43, and single in 1925

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKQH-CC84?lang=en

and in 1930, single, living with her brother James in Minneapolis
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3ZN-ZK2?lang=en

could this be her Social Security information? Probably not.
Carrie Josephine Lutzin
Birth Date   17 May 1889
Social Program Claim Date   28 Mar 1958

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KQK-8195?lang=en

 Do you have the family in 1900?

[oldohiohome]

from the OCR.
Mason City Globe-Gazette March 22, 1972

Frank J. Lutgen NORTHWOOD Frank J. Lutgen, 87, died Tuesday at a Mason City hospital. A resident of Northwood, he had recently moved to. the Pleasant View Apartments in Thornton.

Born April 15, 1884, at Dubuque, he was the son of Matthew and Rose Lutgen. He attended Dubuque schools and was married Sept. 18, 1912, at Eldora to Allain Eunice Frank. He was a salesman for a mineral company, played semi-pro baseball in a minor league, managed teams at Eldora, Forest City and Northwood and was a member of the VFW. Surviving are his wife, a son, Robert, Thornton; three daughters, Mrs.

Helen Foster, Chicago; Mrs. Rose Ann Floy, Thornton; Mrs. Palmer (Lois) Bergo, Northwood; eight grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, two brothers, Emmet, Minneapolis; Leo, St. Paul. He was preceded in death by a son in infancy, a brother and two sisters.

Funeral services will at 10 a.m. Friday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Manly. Burial will be in Sunset Rest Cemetery in Northwood with ConnerColonial Chapel in charge. 'The Scriptural Vigil for the dead will be at 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral chapel.

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/391368731/

so Leonora died before Frank, but no mention of her by name.

[oldohiohome]

James E Lutgen, listed as having died, published in the Minneapolis Star May 6, 1975
the image gives the middle initial
James Lutgen, 84, 1510 Hennepin Av.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/190330675/

I didn't find anything for Edward.

[oldohiohome]

Josephine was alive, age 43, and single in 1925

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKQH-CC84?lang=en

Leonora is not in that household with her mother, sister Josephine, and brother James. So maybe she married between 1910 and 1925. She's not with them in 1930 either.

[oldohiohome]

Dubuque City Directories
for 1913
at 485 Locust
Mathias Lutgen, wife Rose
Leo
Josephine
James E
Edward

but no Leonora

So whatever "happened" to Leonora might have happened between the compilation of the 1911 Dubuque City Directory, in which she appears, and this 1913 issue where she does not appear.

[oldohiohome]

here is the family in 1900 for your records. familysearch didn't attempt a transcription of the surname.

it says Lenora was born in September 1888
and Josephine in June 1880. so that possible Social Security hit I posted above is not her.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9LQ-5DH?lang=en