Adolph and Myrtle (WILLIAMS) Riste

Wedding Portrait. Adolph and Myrtle (WILLIAMS) Riste (30 Oct 1917). Image courtesy of Verla Williams.

Obituary and Gravestone: Adolph Gerhard Riste

Obituary. Adolph Gerhard Riste (1892-1962). Freeport Cemetery Book. Image courtesy of Verla Williams.

Adolph Gerhard Riste was born August 5, 1892 at Clear Lake, Iowa, the son of Knute N. Riste and Emma Schnrug [sic] (and later married Kirkbride). From the Methodist Church records in Decorah is married Harriet Kirkland on May 18, 1916 by Rev. Lackland and became a full member of the Methodist Church December 5, 1916. Adolph married Jennie Myrtle Williams (daughter of Sigvart and Mathilda (Huseby) Williams). They were blessed with three children, Violet married Ryan, Myron and Richard (who died 1931). Adolph and Jennie were divorced and Adolph married Esther Noecker. He died November 28, 1962 at the Winneshiek County Home where he had lived for 21 months of pneumonia. Funeral services were at the First Lutheran Church by Rev. S. O. Sorlien December 1 and burial was in the Freeport Pleasant Valley Cemetery beside his first wife and his son Richard.


Gravestone. Adolph G. (1892-1962) and Esther C. (Noecker) Riste (1916-1989). Freeport Cemetery. Image courtesy of Iowa Gravestone Photo Project.