Obit: Awe, Lydia #2 (1890 - 1962)

 

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Surnames: Awe, Voightlander, Kippenhan, Burmeister, Loos

 

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 07/12/1962

 

Awe, Lydia (7 OCT 1890 - 29 JUN 1962)

 

Lydia Johanna Awe was born Oct. 7, 1890, the daughter of Henry Awe and Friedericka (Loos) Awe, in the town of Green Grove, Owen, Wis., on the family farm where she spent all of her life.  She attended the school in that community, received her religious training in the Immanuel Reformed Church of the west side near Greenwood, of which she was a faithful member all her life. 

 

In September, 1960, she suffered a stroke which left her right side paralyzed and seriously affected her speech.  She was cared for at home until the last few weeks of her life when her condition became more serious and she entered the Clark County Hospital at Owen, passing away June 29th, having attained the age of 71 years, 8 months and 22 days. 

 

She was laid to rest on the family lot of the West Side Cemetery July 2 at 2:00 p.m., Rev. Orval Egbert officiating.  During the service a ladies chorus sang "Heimatland" and "Asleep in Jesus."  Mrs. Alvin Albert played the organ.  Six nephews acted as pallbearers, George Burmeister, Alvin Kippenhan, Calvin Awe, Henry Voightlander Jr., Arnold Awe and Henry Awe. 

 

She was preceded in death by one brother, William, and is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Emma Burmeister of Withee, Mrs. Ted (Martha) Kippenhan, Greenwood, Mrs. Henry (Elizabeth) Voightlander, Abbotsford; and one brother, Arthur Awe of Owen, with whom she had made her home; besides 14 nieces and nephews.  Among relatives and friends from away attending were Mrs. Emma Skinner, Bloomington, Mrs. Lydia Anknew, Clancy, Mont., Mrs. David Le May and daughters, Brenda and Liz, Cornell, Mrs. Al Urban, Milwaukee, Mr. and Mrs. John Marx, Marshfield, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Stock, Sheboygan, Mr. and Mrs. Emery Sieger and daughter Margaret of Elk Mound, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Voightlander, Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Syring of Edgar and Hebert Kippenhan, Wausau.

 

Lydia was a kind, dutifully, quiet, home loving relatives and friend of the type envisioned by Thomas Gray when he wrote:

 

 Far from the maddening crowd’s ignoble strife,

 Their sober wishes never learned to stray;

Along the cool, sequestered vale of life,

They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

  

 

 


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