Luther Paul Stumme
October 31, 1931 - February 6, 2000

Luther Paul Stumme Coto de Caza, Calif. - Dr. Luther Paul Stumme, 68, of Coto de Caza, Calif., and formerly of Denver, Iowa, died at his home Sunday, Feb. 6, of an apparent heart attack. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. today at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Denver. The family will hold a private burial service at the church cemetery in Denver. Dr. Stumme was born Oct. 8, 1931 in Dubuque to Lawrence A. and Esther K. Engelstad Stumme. He married Katheleen M. Amundson Sept. 14, 1955 in Iowa City. He grew up in Ottumwa, Strawberry Point and Muscatine, then attended Wartburg College, Waverly. He served in the United States Army and in the Korean Conflict, then attended the University of Iowa Medical School. He practiced general medicine in Denver for 10 years with his uncle, Dr. Ernest H. Stumme. He then studied neurology at the University of Oregon. He practiced neurological medicine in Portland, Ore., for 14 years before working in Tupelo, Miss., for 10 more. He retired three years ago and moved to California with his wife. He is survived by his wife; three daughters, Laurie Stumme-Diers and her husband Paul of Ixonia, Wis., Sonia Krafcik and her husband John of Ann Arbor, Mich. and Kirsten Bohmer and her husband Bill of San Diego, Calif.; two sons, Mark Stumme of Des Moines and Brent and his wife Debbie of Yorba Linda, Calif.; six grandchildren, Maren, Micah, Matthew, Sarah, Alex and Annika; three sisters, Lois Woodhouse of Vero Beach, Fla., Carolyn Riswold of Citrus Heights, Calif. and Naomi Orsay of Brentwood, Mo.; and three brothers, Wayne Stumme of St. Paul, Minn., Lawrence A. Stumme, Jr., of Denver and John Stumme of Chicago, Ill. He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Kathryn Tutton. Memorials may be made to Wartburg College.

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