| Alphones Tigges
Mass of the Christian burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m.
Saturday, Jan. 2, at Holy Spirit Church in Carroll for Alphonse Tigges,
87, who died Tuesday, Dec. 29, at his residence in Carroll. He had been
in failing health for many years.
The Rev. Jim Tigges will be the celebrant, and the Revs. Mervin
Hood and Robert Gralapp will be concelebrants.
Burial will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Carroll.
Gift bearers will be grandchildren Janie Schenkelberg, Diane
Davis, Karla Tigges and Chris Tigges. Casket bearers will be grandsons
Brian Tigges, Martin Tigges, Mark Tigges, Greg Tigges, Paul Davis and
Frank Sovich II.
Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. Friday at Sharp Funeral Home in
Carroll. Rosary will be recited at 3 and 8 p.m. Friday, the latter by
Holy Spirit Parish and the Carroll Knights of Columbus. There will be a
scriptural prayer service at 8:45 p.m. Friday.
Born Jan. 14, 1900, in Carroll, Mr. Tigges was a son of Frank and
Anna (Schultes) Tigges. He lived in the Willey and Carroll communities
and attended St. Mary's School in Willey.
On April 30, 1929. he was married to Betty Scharfenkamp at Sts.
Peter and Paul Church in Carroll by the Rev. Lambert Schenkelberg.
Following their marriage the couple lived on a farm southeast of Carroll
until their retirement in 1959, when they moved to their current home in
Carroll. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in April 1979.
He was a member of Holy Spirit Parish in Carroll and an honorary
life member of the Carroll Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Tigges is survived by his wife. Betty, of Carroll; three
sons, Donald Tigges and his wife. Mary, of Carroll. Walter Tigges and
his wife, Velma, of Carroll and Gerald Tigges and his wife, Mary Kay, of
Carroll; four daughters, Ruth Ann Tigges of Granville, Carolyn (Mrs.
Frank) Sovich of St. Louis, Mo., Mary Jane (Mrs. Morrie) Schenkelberg of
Sioux City and Rosalie (Mrs. Jon) Davis of Omaha, Neb.; 27 grandchildren
and 19 great-grandchildren.
Other survivors are three brothers, Clem Tigges of Carroll, Leo
Tigges of Carroll and Paul Tigges of Carroll; and four sisters, Eleanor
Greteman of Carroll, Mrs. Andy (Susan) Hackfort of Carroll, Mrs. Jim
(Freda) Collison of Carroll and Josephine Tigges of Omaha, Neb.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a granddaughter, Diane
Venner; a great-granddaughter, Sara Siepker; four brothers, John,
George, Louis and Raymond Tigges; and a sister, Rose Holbrook.
(The Times Herald, Carroll, Iowa, Wednesday, December 30, 1987, p. 2) |
