Funeral Services Set For Pioneer
Funeral services for William A. Albers, 87, will be conducted Friday at 1:30 pm in the Trinity Lutheran church of Guymon. The Rev. Walter J. Wehmeier, pastor, will officiate. A William A. Albers memorial fund has been established for the Trinity Luthern Sunday school and will be accepted at the church office or Henson Funeral Home. Interment will be in the Lutheran Cemetery, north of Guymon, under direction of Hensons. Albers, son of John and Mary Albers, was born Sept. 5, 1878 at Stover, Mo. He came to the Panhandle in 1906 and bought a relinquishment, 16 miles northwest of Guymon. The Lutheran church member died Wednesday in Guymon Memorial hospital.
***This obituary was taken from a newspaper clipping (unknown newspaper & date). I do know that this William Anton Albers d. Feb. 15, 1966 and his wife was Gladys who was b. Feb. 15, 1904 in CA and d. Nov. 1992 Guymon, Texas Co., OK.

Have you made a connection with Gattemeier?
Most of John and Sophia's children's death certificates list Sophia's maiden name as Meins or Mines, one says Katzmeyer. The Gademeier in Uncle Bill's letter, I believe is Kotyemeyer in the Missouri Digital Heritage on-line probate docs. The probate records spell the name at least a dozzen different ways.
According to the probate docs, when Henry Kotgemeyer died on May 5, 1853, his wife, Sophia had one son, John, and another on the way. The one on the way, I believe, is my great grandfather, Heinrich Dietrich Albers, who was born Nov 18, 1853, six months after his father's death. The probate docs also mention that she is now the wife of Koehler.
Her second marriage was a little over a month after Henry Kottkemeyer's death. The marriage doc reads "Hermann KÖhler and widow Sophia KÖttkemeyer a born Meins" The date of this union was 15 June A.D. 1853.
Sophia's final marriage was to John Henry Albers on Dec 23, 1856. Here she is refered to as "Mrs Sophia Meinz, formerly Koehler