Ortman, Marjorie Mildred 1909 - 1911

ORTMAN, LINDENBERG

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 2/3/2019 at 11:35:20

Elkader Register & Argus, Thur., 26 Feb. 1911. Elkport and Vicinity column.

On July 18, 1909, there came to the home of August Ortman and wife, nee Bertha Lindenberg, two little ladies, who were welcomed to the hearts and home of these beloved parents. Though somewhat frail at first, yet with the strength from on High and tenderest care, they thrived until they had passed over most of that critical period of babyhood, teething. Like all infants they sometimes had little ailments, but the Heavenly Father carried them through until now they could toddle from one room to the other hand in hand. Then both little darlings, Marjorie and Marie, became afflicted with whooping cough and lately suffered an attack of pneumonia, from which little Marjorie could not recover. On Wednesday, at midnight, Jan. 18, the little soul took its flight to "the land where the countless angels dwell", leaving sorrowing parents, sister Adele and the twin sister Marie to return, in body, no more. On Saturday, Jan. 21, the little mortal body in its casket was tenderly carried from the home, borne by the pall-bearers, the Misses Amanda Waterman, Alma Brandenburg, Elsie Meyer and Alice Thein, to the Musfeldt cemetery. The ceremony was conducted in sympathetic words of sorrow and of consolation, by Rev. Linnenburger, of Elkport, who pointed the sorrowing ones upward and prayed that the "Heavenly Father may comfort them in this their hour of sorrow". It was but about two weeks ago that Mr. Lindenberg, the Grandpa of this little darling, was buried from this home. The entire community and many relatives sympathize deeply with the sorrowing ones.