Alvina Freese 1870-1943

FREESE, REINKING, RUSSELL, ENDORF

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 7/10/2013 at 07:51:38

18 March 1943 - The Clarence Sun

Alvina Reinking was born March 2, 1870, on a Cedar county, Iowa farm where she grew to womanhood. She attended the rural schools and was confirmed in St. John's Evangelical church in Lowden, later transferring her membership to St. Paul's Reformed church of Wheatland, of which she was a member at the time of her death.

She was united in marriage to Herman Freese at Clarence on May 1, 1895, and they started housekeeping on the farm southwest of Wheatland. Mr. Freese later purchased a home and farm on the east edge of Wheatland. A farm near Mechanicsville was the Freese home for a while, then they owned a farm near Eldridge.

Returning to Wheatland in 1916 the home was re-established there. Mr. Freese died March 31, 1931, as a result of an accident in the home.

During the years since her husband's death, Mrs. Freese has maintained a home in Wheatland for her children, and later spent some of her time in Davenport with her daughter.

Several weeks ago she was stricken with paralysis, and lived just two days after she reached her 73rd birthday, succumbing to a cerebral hemorrhage on Thursday, March 4th.

The final illness of the mother brought her children home to give her every possible aid.

She leaves five daughters, Mrs. Chester Russell of Chicago, Erma and Gertrude who have been a home since last fall, Mrs. Emil Endorf of Wheatland, and Lena who is employed in Davenport; her only son Everett of Chicago; and one granddaughter, Lois Endorf, of Wheatland.