December 20, 2002

Mabel Kurre

Mabel M. Kurre, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2002, at the Lutheran Home. She was born April 26, 1914, at Frohna, Mo., daughter of Karl J. and Frieda Burfiend Kaempfe. She and J. Howard Kurre were married Dec. 23, 1933, in Cape Girardeau. He died March 22, 1981...

Mabel M. Kurre, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2002, at the Lutheran Home.

She was born April 26, 1914, at Frohna, Mo., daughter of Karl J. and Frieda Burfiend Kaempfe. She and J. Howard Kurre were married Dec. 23, 1933, in Cape Girardeau. He died March 22, 1981.

Kurre was a member of Evangelical United Church of Christ and its Friendship and Mary Martha circles.

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Survivors include two daughters, Donna Magwitz of Cape Girardeau, Dorothy Dwyer of St. Louis; three sisters, Myrtle Braun of Mountain Home, Ark., Lillian Glawe of Cleveland, Ohio, Dorothy Underwood of Birmingham, Ala.; four grandchildren, Jeffrey Dwyer and Michael Dwyer of St. Louis, Dirk Magwitz of Atlanta, Ga., and Gretchen Magwitz of Memphis, Tenn.

She was preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home after 10 a.m. Saturday.

The funeral will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with David Schaffner officiating. Burial will be in Cape County Memorial Park.

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