Obit: Strade, Augusta #3 (1868 - 1952)

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Surnames: Strade, Drake, Schorer, Gibson, Miller, Dittmeyer

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 05/29/1952

Strade, Augusta #3 (2 APR 1868 - 22 MAY 1952)

Mrs. Augusta Strade, 84, a pioneer resident of the Curtiss (Clark Co., Wis.) vicinity, died Thursday morning in the Mercy Hospital at Oshkosh.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Evangelical and Reformed Church at Curtiss.  The Rev. Franz Puhlmann officiated and burial was made in the Pine Hill Cemetery.

Mrs. Strade, the former Augusta Drake, was born April 2, 1868, in Kiel.  She received her education there and was also married there May 10, 1885, to Frederick Strade.  The same year they moved to Curtiss where they operated a farm.  Mr. Strade died in Feb. 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 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; and a brother, Herman Drake, Kiel.

A daughter and two sons also preceded her in death.