KOTH, Hilda

KOTH, PECKENSCHNEIDER, MOHN, VAN HOOSER, KING, PHELPS, ATKINSON, BUMANN, OATMAN, NELSON

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 9/13/2006 at 15:11:57

Hilda Koth

AURELIA, Iowa -- Hilda Koth, 94, of Aurelia died Monday, Dec. 12, 2005, at Sunset Knoll Retirement Home in Aurelia, where she had been a resident since October 2000.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Aurelia, with the Rev. Larry Lemke officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Visitation with the family present will be 6 to 8 p.m. today at Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia.

Hilda Emma Peckenschneider was born Jan. 24, 1911, in Aurelia, the daughter of Herman and Louise (Mohn) Peckenschneider. She attended school at Diamond Center south of Aurelia.

On Feb. 5, 1931, she married Lorenz Koth at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Aurelia.

She enjoyed gardening, sewing, crocheting and knitting. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, the Ladies Aid, the Birthday Club, Pitch Club and the Farm Bureau.

Survivors include a son, Merlin Koth of Warner Robins, Ga.; a daughter and her husband, Karen and Jerold Van Hooser of Ocala, Fla.; five grandchildren, Andrew Koth of Athens, Ga., Regina and her husband, Barry King, of Byron, Ga., DeShon Koth of Macon, Ga., Scott Van Hooser and Renae Van Hooser, both of Rochester, Minn.; two great-grandchildren, Mercedes Phelps and Tyler Atkinson; a sister-in-law, Hattie Peckenschneider of Cherokee, Iowa; numerous nieces and nephews; and other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Lorenz on July 14, 1991; and nine brothers and sisters, Hugo, Lester, Bart, Harry, Walter, Edna Bumann, Lillie Bumann, Wilhelmine Nelson and Alma Oatman.