Lucy (Wehmueller) Ostermann - 1907-1999

WEHMUELLER, OCHS, HOFFMAN, ENGLE, EMY

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 7/13/2011 at 16:14:32

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON STANDARD, August 11, 1999
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Lucy Ostermann was born September 26, 1907 in Perry County, Missouri to Louis and Mary (Ochs) Wehmueller. On September 26, 1928 she married the Rev. Victor Ostermann at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in St. Louis, Missouri. After their marriage, they lived in Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada, until 1930, then in Carver, Minnesota until 1943. They then moved to Eagan, Minnesota where they lived until 1949 when they moved to Sauk Rapids, Minnesota where he was the pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church until retiring in 1969. After retirement they moved to St. Cloud, Minnesota where she lived until October 1991 when she moved into Shepherd Court Apartments. Lucy was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church.

Lucy died Friday August 6, 1999 at the Good Samaritan Center in Waukon, Iowa. She was 91 years old. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, August 11 at Dingman Funeral Home in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. Martin Funeral Home is assisting with arrangements. She is preceded in death by her husband, Victor who died July 17, 1986; 3 brothers, and 4 sisters.

She is survived by 2 daughters, Ruth (Ronald) Hoffman of St. Charles, Illinois and Judith (Lowell) Engle of Harpers Ferry, Iowa; 3 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren; and a sister Edna Emy of St. Louis, Missouri.