Viola Ida Kirchhoff (95) of Altamont

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Published on July 9 2016 6:32 pm

Viola Ida Kirchhoff, 95, of Altamont, died at 4:40 p.m., Friday, July 8, 2016 at Lutheran Care Center, Altamont.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m., Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Altamont with Rev. Dr. James F. Wright officiating. Burial will follow at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Altamont. Visitation will be for two hours prior to service time at the church. Memorials are requested to Lutheran Care Center. Gieseking Funeral Home, Altamont is assisting the family with arrangements.

Viola Ida (Herrmann) Kirchhoff was born Friday, September 17, 1920 in Rural Montrose, Effingham County to Jacob and Ida (Ziegler) Herrmann. She married Frank August Kirchhoff April 17, 1949 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Effingham and he preceded her in death August 18, 2009. She was a homemaker. She was a long time member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Altamont.

She is survived by: son, Harold (wife Sylvia) Kirchhoff of Dacula, Georgia; daughter, Arlene (husband Paul) Ratliff of Athens; sister, Luella Kirchhoff of Jacksonville and six grandchildren; Grace, Sophia, Joshua, Elizabeth, David, and Dalton.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, brothers, Elmer Herrmann and Albert Herrmann, and sister, Ardelia Haack.