Obit: Strade, Augusta #2 (1863 - 1952)
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Surnames: Strade, Puhlmann, Drake, Schorer,
Gibson, Miller, Dittmeyer
----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark
County, Wis.) 05/29/1952
Strade, Augusta (2 Apr. 1863 - 22 May 1952)
Curtiss, Wis. - Mrs. Augusta Strade, 84, a pioneer
resident of this vicinity, died Thursday morning in the Mercy
hospital at Oshkosh.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday
in the Evangelical and Reformed church. The Rev. Franz Puhlmann
officiated and burial was made in the Pine Hill cemetery.
Mrs. Strade, the former Augusta Drake, was born
April 2, 1863, in Kiel. She received her education there and was
also married there on May 10, 1885, to Frederick Strade. The same
year, they moved to Curtiss where they operated a farm. Mr. Strade
died in February, 1912. Mrs. Strade had resided on the home farm,
which is now operated by a son, Clarence, since they first came
here.
She was a member of the Ladies’ Aid Society
of the Evangelical and Reformed church.
Among her survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Ella
Schorer, Mrs. Edna Gibson and Mrs. Peter (Hattie) Miller, Oshkosh;
and Mrs. Oscar (Bertha) Dittmeyer, Sheboygan; four sons, Edwin and
Clarence, Curtiss; Harry, Oshkosh; and Ben, Sheboygan; 19 grand
children; and a brother, Herman Drake, of Kiel.
A daughter and two sons also preceded her in death.
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