Franziska Sporleder

SPORLEDER, WERNER, KURTH

Posted By: Dale Sporleder (email)
Date: 9/12/2005 at 21:39:42

Mrs. Sporleder Will Be Buried On Sunday. Rites to Be Conducted At Lidderdale Church. Funeral services for Mrs. Fred (Franziska nee Werner) Sporleder of Lidderdale, who passed away Friday noon, will be held Sunday afternoon. The Rev. R. Herrmann, pastor of the Lidderdale Lutheran Church, will officiate. A short service at the family home in Lidderdale at 2:15 o’clock will be followed by final rites at 2:30 o’clock. Burial will be beside her husband in the Lutheran Cemetery at Lidderdale. Pallbearers will be three grandchildren, Carl Sporleder, Ervin Sporleder and Frederick Sporleder, and Fred Breidert, Frank Kurth and William Heimkamp. Mrs. Sporleder’s death occurred exactly six months after his death of her husband which occurred on January 9, 1937.
Death Takes Mrs. Fred Sporleder, 79, of Lidderdale. Aged Woman Pioneer of Community; Died after Stroke. Mrs. Fred Sporleder, a pioneer resident of Lidderdale, passed away at her home in Lidderdale at 12:10 o’clock Friday afternoon, her death following a stroke which she suffered ten days earlier. She had been in failing health since the death of husband on January 9 of this year. Mrs. Sporleder was 79 years old. The body will be taken from the Huffman Funeral Home to the family home in Lidderdale Friday evening.
Funeral Sunday. Funeral service, conducted by Rev. R. Herrmann, pastor of the Lidderdale Lutheran Church, will be held Sunday afternoon. A short service at the family home at 2:15 o’clock will be followed by final rites at the Lutheran Church in Lidderdale at 2:30 o’clock. Burial will be beside her husband in the Lutheran Cemetery at Lidderdale. Mrs. Sporleder was born Franziska Werner in Seifertshausen, Electorate of Hesse, Germany on March 26, 1858. She lived in her native country until she was 13 months old, when she came with her mother, brothers and sisters to Will County, Illinois where the family settled.
Married in 1879. On January 26, 1879, she became the bride of Fred Sporleder. Mr. and Mrs. Sporleder resided on a farm in Illinois until 1883, when they came to Carroll County to live on an 80-acre farm four miles northeast of Carroll which they bought. In the ensuing years, they increased their holdings and continued to live in the same community until their retirement from farming in 1920, in which year they moved to Lidderdale where the family home has since been maintained.
Church Member. Mrs. Sporleder was a faithful member of the Lutheran Church at Lidderdale, to which she had belonged ever since coming to the Lidderdale community. Surviving Mrs. Sporleder are two sons, Anton Sporleder of Lidderdale and Arnold Sporleder of Carroll, and one daughter, Mrs. John Kurth (Anna) of Lidderdale. She also leaves ten grandchildren, two great grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Peter Heissner of Manhattan, Illinois and one brother, Henry Werner of Van Horn, Iowa.