Obituary
• Emma Halfmann, 94, of Wall died March 8 and was buried in the St. Ambrose Catholic Cemetery in Wall. She was born June 4, 1908 in Olfen to Frank and Anna Diedner Gerngross. She married Mack Halfmann in 1928, and they moved to Wall in 1939, raising a family of nine while they farmed and ranched. Emma was a charter member of the Wall Catholic Daughters and a member of the St. Helen’s Alter Society. She was devoted to her family and loved to play dominoes with family and friends. Her husband, her parents, all her siblings, and a great-granddaughter preceded her in death. She is survived by four sons, Cecil Halfmann, George Halfmann, Leon Halfmann and Wayne (Tex) Halfmann, and five daughters, Bernadette Plagens, Frances Herring, Mary Jane Mikulik, Veronica Clark, and Janice Niehues. She is also survived by 51 grandchildren, 111 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.