Hoth, Esther Anna Alma (Bahls) 1909-1985

HOTH, BAHLS, SADEWASSER, REIMER, STOOPS, WEST, MARMANN, SEVERSON, MUELLER, HOHLBERG, KLIEFOTH, STRADE

Posted By: Patricia Morehouse
Date: 3/11/2007 at 16:15:48

Clayton County Register, Wednesday-January 16, 1985

Esther Anna Alma Hoth

Funeral services were held for Esther Anna Alma Hoth, 75, Saturday, January 12, 1985 at 2 p.m. at the Peace United Church of Christ, Elkader. Rev. Dr. Gene Becker officiated the service with burial in the East Side Cemetery, Elkader. Honorary pallbearers were William Sadewasser, Haldon Reimer, Malcolm Stoops and Francis West. Pallbearers were David Hoth, Darrel Hoth, Jim Hoth, Dennis Marmann, Kent Severson, Steven Mueller, Jeff Mueller and Bradley Hoth.

Esther Hoth was born March 3, 1909, in Garnvillo, the daughter of Max and Bertha Hohlberg Bahls. She was educated in the rural schools of Clayton County. On December 14, 1927, she married Elmer Paul Otto Hoth at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Garnvillo. He died December 7, 1970. They farmed all their life in Read and Farmersburg Townships before moving to Elkader in 1961. She served as president of the Senior Citizens, and was a member of the Women's Fellowship and Kitchen Committee at church, a member of the Deborah Circle, Friendship Club, Cemetery Association, and many card clubs. She died Thursday January 10, 1985, at Prairie du Chien Memorial Hospital.

Survivors include her children, Vernon Hoth, Farmersburg, Mrs. Allen Dale (Marlene) Marmann, Elkader, Mrs. Ronald (Ila Mae) Mueller, Monona; 15 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; a brother Walter Bahls, Guttenberg; three sisters, Mrs. Cora Kliefoth, Monona; Mrs. Emma Hoth, Elkader, and Mrs. Anita Strade, Garnavillo.

Preceding her in death was her husband, Elmer; a son Eugene Hoth; a grandson, two great-grandchildren, and seven brothers, William, Arthur, Lawrence, Verni, Carl, Arno and one at birth.