Ida Buendiger Rick 1895-1949

RICK, BUENDIGER, EDMUNDS, SKOW, BRIX, LANGE, FARNHAM, ATHEY, LAMB, WILSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 12/2/2010 at 22:43:58

Funeral Rites for Mrs. Otto Rick to Be Monday
Services for Mrs. Otto Rick will be held 2 p.m. Monday in the Rick home and at 2:30 p.m. in Estherville Presbyterian church with Rev. Frielie Conaway officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.

Mrs. Rick succumbed 11:57 a.m. yesterday at Holy Family hospital of uremic poisoning. She had been in the hospital about five weeks.

The deceased was born Ida Buendiger, Mar. 31, 1885, at Perham, Minn. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Buendiger and received her education in the public schools at Perham.

Jan. 13, 1910, she was united in marriage to Otto Rick in Fargo, N.D. The couple moved in 1930 to the Herman C. Knoll farm near High lake and lived there 12 years before moving to Estherville where she spent the rest of her life. She had been in ill health for the past 10 years.

Survivors include three sons, Gordon, Bernard and John of Estherville and three daughters, Mrs. Lloyd Edmunds, Mrs. Elmer Brix and Mrs. Lyle Skow, also of Estherville, nine grandchildren, six sisters, two brothers and several nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, November 4, 1949)

Mrs. Otto Rick was born Ida Buendiger, Mar. 31, 1895 at Perham, Minn., the daughter of Henry and Emma Buendiger, and died Nov. 3 at Holy Family hospital after a critical illness of about six weeks. She had been in poor health for several years.

She received her education in the public schools of Perham and on Jan. 13, 1910, she was married to Otto C. Rick at Fargo, N.D. To the couple was born six children, Bernard, Mrs. LaVerne Edmunds, Gordon, Mrs. Violet Skow, Mrs. Irene Brix and John, all now living in Estherville.

In 1930, the family moved to High Lake township in Emmet county where they farmed for 13 years. In 1943 they moved to Estherville which was her home at the time of her decease.

After moving to Estherville, Mrs. Rick was received into the Presbyterian church, where she was a member of the Simpson-Lyman circle at the time of her death. Survivors include her husband and six children; nine grandchildren; six sisters, Mrs. Augusta Lange and Mrs. Lizzie Farnham of Fargo, N.D.; Mrs. Minnie Athey of Minot, N. D., Mrs. Alma Lamb of Berkley, Calif., Mrs. Helen Wilson of Staples, Minn., and Miss Della Buendiger of Perham, and two brothers, Herman and Arthur Buendiger of Perham. She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers.

Funeral services were held 2 p.m. Nov. 7, in her home at 319 S. Sixth street and at 2:30 p.m. at Estherville Presbyterian church, with burial at Oak Hill cemetery. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 5, 1949)