Weber, Sophia Marie 1863-1944

WEBER, BUTER, BERENS, PAULSEN, KREMIN, OESTMANN, PEDERSEN

Posted By: Elaine (Weber) Harrington (email)
Date: 10/21/2006 at 11:40:06

The Dunlap Reporter
dated January 20, 1944

Mrs. Sophia Weber passed away at her home in Denison, Iowa, on Monday, January 10. The news of her passing came as a shock to many friends and acquaintances in this community whom she had befriended by loving and sympathetic personality. Her death came after a brief illness which took her shortly after the Christmas holidays.

She was born Sophia Maria Oestman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Oestman, on February 4, 1863, in Wettlohe, Hanover, Germany. Here she was baptized in the name of the Triune God and later confirmed in the Lutheran Church. She came to America with her parents at the age of nineteen years. On January 20, 1885, she was united in marriage to Peter Frederick Weber, which union was blessed with ten children.

After their marriage they resided for four years on a farm near Ute, then on a farm near Charter Oak for ten years, after which they farmed for fifteen nears near Dunlap. After this time they retired to make their home in Denison. Here her husband preceded her in death on may 8, 1930.

Mrs. Weber is survived by the following children: Louis, Peter , Franz, Henry, Mary (Mrs. Wm. Berens), Elsie (Mrs. Henry Buter), Herman, Bernhardt, and Emma (Mrs. Pete Pedersen) all of Dunlap. Also surviving her are 30 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. Others surviving are a brother, Henry Oestman of Spokane, Washington, and two sisters, Mrs. Anna Kremin and Mrs. Doris Paulsen, of Pasadena, California. One son, Alfred, preceded her in death in 1925.

Mrs. Weber had been a faithful member of the Lutheran Church all of her life and, although she lived in Denison, she often came to worship in the Dunlap Lutheran Church. The members of the congregation will always be grateful to her for her expression of faith in the gift of the church altar, candle branches, flood lights and many similar expressions.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, January 12, at 1:30 P.M. at the Weber home with Rev. H. G. Ritzen of Dunlap in charge and at the Zion Lutheran Church with Rev. C. W. Schmidt officiating. The burial was at Oakland Cemetery, Denison.

Following is an additional
obituary published in a
newspaper:

After an illness of about ten days, Mrs. Peter Weber passed away at her home in Denison last Monday afternoon at three o’clock. Mrs. Weber became ill shortly after the Christmas holidays and grew steadily weaker, despite every medical effort.

Sophia Maria Oestmann was born Feb. 4,1863 in Wettlohe, Province Hanover, Germany. Here she was baptized and later confirmed in the Lutheran church. She came with her parents to America at the age of 19 years. On Feb. 20, 1885 she was united in wedlock with Peter Weber, a union blessed with ten children, one of whom, Alfred, preceded his parents in death in 1925.
(Note: A copy of the Certificate of Marriage shows date of marriage as January 24, 1885.)

After their marriage they resided for four years on a farm near Ute, then for ten years on a farm near Charter Oak, after which they made their home on a farm near Dunlap for fifteen years, retiring to Denison in 1914. Here Mr. Weber preceded his wife in death on May 8, 1930.

The departed is survived by the following sons: Louis, Peter, Franz, Henry, Herman and Bernhardt, all of Dunlap, and by three daughters, Mrs. Mary Berens, Mrs. Elsie Buter, and Mrs. Emma Pedersen, all of Dunlap; by one brother, Henry Oestmann, in the state of Washington; two sisters Mrs. Anna Kremin and Mrs. Doris Paulsen of Pasadena, Calif.; 30 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.

Mrs. Weber was a lifelong member of the Lutheran church and an active member of the local Lutheran Ladies Aid for many years.

Funeral services were held at Zion Lutheran church on Wednesday afternoon. Interment was made in Oakland cemetery. Pallbearers were Bernard Berens, Glen Buter, Leonard Buter, Gerald Weber, Harvey Weber and Raymond Weber.