BECKMANN, Hildegard Charlotte

BECKMANN, STARK, GRUNERT, SCHWAB

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/12/2013 at 13:18:59

Hildegard C. Beckmann, 78, of 909 Main Street, Clear Lake, died Thursday, Jan.
1, 2004 at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City. Services were held
Monday, Jan. 5, at Redeemer Lutheran Church, Ventura, Iowa with the Rev. Daird
W. Korth officiating. Memorials may be left to the Hildegard Beckmann Memorial
Fund.

Hildegard Charlotte, the daughter of Willi and Elisabeth (Stark) Grunert, was
born May 17, 1925 in Berlin, Germany. She received her education in Berlinchen.
She worked as an apprentice clerk from 1949 ­ 1952. Hildegard was united in
marriage to Willi O. Beckmann on March 25, 1949 in Munich, Germany. In 1952 she
moved with her husband and daughter, Traudi, to Ventura, Iowa, later moving to
Clear Lake in 1953. She worked for the Clear Lake Bakery, the Fashion Shop, and
Dawne's Clothing where she did tailoring. She later did tailoring from her home.
Hildegard enjoyed swimming, biking, walking and quilting for World Relief. She
was a member of the Redeemer Lutheran Church of Ventura, where she sang in the
choir.

Hildegard is survived by her husband, Willi, of Clear Lake; her daughter, Traudi
Schwab and her husband, Manfred, and one grandson, Markus Schwab, all of Munich,
Germany; one sister-in-law and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents and three brothers, Gerhard, Heinz, and
Werner.