Becker, Charlotte (Brabant) 1854 - 1928

BECKER, BRABANT, PRUESS, OSBORNE

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Date: 4/30/2020 at 15:34:48

Clayton County Register, Thur., 27 Dec. 1928.

Charlotte Becker, nee Brabant, was born in the province of Prussia, Germany, August 31, 1854, the third child of Detrich and Dorothea Brabant and the twin sister of Fredericka Pruess, who was her life companion and chum

She was baptized in infancy in the Lutheran church in the homeland and attended the German parochial school, was confirmed and became a member of the Lutheran church. In 1875, when she was twenty-two years of age, she came to America with her aged parents and here in Clayton county met and married John F. Becker.

To this union were born twelve children, three of whom, with her husband, preceded her in death - Clara, when only six months old, William, the twin brother of Ida when a tiny babe, and Ida, the youngest, when she was eleven years old. Her husband preceded her in death in 1911.

The nine children still living are Ewald, of Volga; Hulda, of Strawberry Point, with whom she was making her home at the time of her death and where she had every care that could be given her until death, December 19, 1928; Albert of Bellingham, Wash.; Herman of Susanville, Calif.; John, of Oelwein; Lizzie, of Columbia, Mo.; Carl, of Mt. Vernon; August, of Newark, N.J.; and Lena, of Chicago, Ill. Twenty-five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren also survive her. Five of her children were with her until the last.

All her life, from the time she came to America, was lived here in Clayton county, either on the old home farm in Cox Creek township or in her home at Volga, where she and her husband retired in 1906 and where she lived the last twenty-two years of her life, enjoying her children when they came to visit her and also the companionship of her beloved twin sister, Fredericka Preuss, and her only brother, Christian Brabant.

Funeral services were held last Friday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Osborne, in Strawberry Point, and the remains were then brought to Elkader, where interment was made in the East Side cemetery, Rev. C. H. Franke, of this place, officiating.