----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 03/16/1994

Awe, Hilda Otelia (18 June 1899 - 12 March 1994)

Hilda Otelia Awe, 94, Withee, Clark County, died Saturday, March 12, 1994, at the home of her daughter, Virginia Perman, Roseville, Minn. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 15, 1994, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Longwood. Rev. Lowell Bolstad officiated. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery, Withee. Pallbearers were Jim Bertelson, Erick Bertelson, Tim Borgort, Steve Olson, Lauri Perman and Nate Ryan.

Hilda Otelia Bredeson was born on June 18, 1899, in Longwood, to Thorvald and Agnete (nee Arnesen) Bredeson. She was a 1917 graduated of Greenwood High School and earned a Rural School Teachers certificate in 1918 at the State Normal School at River Falls. She taught school in the Longwood area for six years before her marriage to John A. Awe on June 18, 1924. He died in 1974. She also taught grade school during World War II. She was a member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Longwood, where she taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. She was a member of the Auxiliary of the Van Huizen-Fritz American Legion Post 123 of Owen. From July 1993 through Jan. 1994, she resided at the Oakbrook Manor in Thorp.

Survivors include one daughter, Virginia (Victor) Perman, Roseville, Minn. four granddaughters three great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents her husband three sisters, Olivia Bowen, Borghild Thiel and Tillie Shirley one brother, Jul Bredeson one granddaughter, Vicki Perman and nieces and nephews.

Memorials can be given to the Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Longwood or the American Cancer Society.

Maurina Funeral Home handled the arrangements.