SAEWERT, Magdaline (Roth) Bechtel 1862-1931

ROTH, BECHTEL, SAEWERT, SCHLEITH, JOHNSON, ZIMMERMAN, MARTI

Posted By: Jan Warren
Date: 3/24/2004 at 22:33:50

Obituary from Waukon Republican-Standard November 11, 1931

MRS. SAVERT VICTIM OF HEART DISEASE

Succumbs to heart attack in her bed at home: was 68 years old.

The death today of Mrs. Charles Savert occasioned deep sadness among her many friends, who had known her nearly her entire life. Her demise was due to heart failure.

The deceased, Magdaline Roth, was born at Lansing November 27, 1862. She was married twice, her last marriage taking place at Lansing in 1899 to Charles Savert. She is survived by her husband and eight children, Mrs. Emma Schleigh of Minneapolis, Edwin, Fremond, Mrs. Charles Johsnon, Mrs. Fred Zimmerman, William, Harry and Carl, all of Church. She is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Katie Bechtel and Mrs. Henry Marti of Church, and Herman Roth of Waukon.

Her funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the Congregational church at Church, conducted by Rev. Schalk. Burial will be in the Lansing Ridge Cemetery.

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Added by S. Ferrall 11/4/2023:

Church, Ia., Nov. 13 - Mrs. Charles Saenert [sic], wife of a well known farmer living near here, was found dead in bed early Wednesday morning. Surviving are her husband and a grown up family. Funeral arrangements are not completed.

~Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal, Dubuque, IA, 11/13/1931, pg 12

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Death of Mrs. Saewert
Like a sudden darkness was the inner pain that smote the pastor's heart on the morning when a messenger entered his home with the tidings briefly told, "Mother was found dead in bed this morning."

Mrs. Saewert's many relatives, friends and neighbors, who had known her nearly all her life, felt as though one of the central foundations of the community and Congregational church on Lansing Ridge had been removed. Indeed, "no man knows his hour; like fish caught in the deadly net, like birds trapped in a snare, so men are snared by an evil hour that drops upon them suddenly," (Eccles. 9:12).

The friend whose sudden death has called us together knew that the Lord of life and death would come as a "thief in the night," and consequently was for many years ready, waiting for the funeral train; but the time of her waiting was not lost: she went forward always, onward to meet her Lord when coming as a "bridegroom," to meet him with her "lamp trimmed with oil." And the Angel of the Lord opened the gates of eternity for her on Wednesday, November 11, 1931, and whispered the summons of earthly departure, and to give her soul rest and that long-waited-for perfect vision of her Lord and Redeemer.

Magdalena Roth was born in Lansing township, on Nov. 27, 1862, as the oldest daughter, and the second of the seven children of the late Jacob and Elizabeth Roth. She was married twice, her first marriage taking place on April 25, 1889, to John A. Bechtel of Center township, who preceded her and family of three children -- Emma, Edwin and Freeman -- to the eternal rest on Nov. 16, 1895.

Four years later, on Sept. 26, 1899, she was again united in marriage to Charles Saewert of Lansing township, to which union were born three children, Marie, William and Harry.

She is survived by her deeply stricken husband and these six children: Mrs. Emma Schleith of Minneapolis; Edwin and Freeman Bechtel, Mrs. Marie Zimmerman, William and Harry Saewert, all of the Church neighborhood; besides two children of her husband's first marriage to Magdalena Bechtel - Mrs. Lydia Johnson and Carl H. Saewert of Lansing; twenty grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Katie Bechtel and Mrs. Emma Marti of Church; and one brother, Herman Roth of Waukon. All of these, besides a host of other relatives, and innumerable friends, mourn the loss of a Christian woman and worthy representative of God's family on this earth.

She was a faithful member of the Congregational church at Church, of the Ladies Aid society, and in good and regular standing.

Now she has left us, at the age of 68 years, 11 months, and 15 days. Do not let us say that her life was incomplete, for in the light which streams from the sacred page we see that there can be no such thing as an unfinished Christian life. The record of her earthly life is complete, and the Boo of Life is now closed, for she is laid to rest, asleep in Jesus, until the great day of the last trumpet sound shall awake her to stand before her Lord; and the Book will be opened again, not by man, but by the Great Judge, to receive her into eternal bliss and reign with Christ. What a record! Jubilant in view of the heavenly glory. Peace to her memory!

Funeral services with one of the largest of attendances, were held Friday afternoon at the house and 2 p.m. at the church, conducted by Rev. K. Schalk, pastor. Interment was made in the Lansing Ridge cemetery.

~The Allamakee Journal and Lansing Mirror, Wednesday, November 18, 1931; pg 2