BILDEN, Louise Valdine --- 1910-1995

REAR, BILDEN, AMUNDSON, MOE

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Date: 12/26/2012 at 09:34:32

Louise Valdine Bilden

Funeral services for Louise Bilden were held Monday, July 17, 1995, at 10 a.m. in the West Clermont Lutheran Church at Clermont, Iowa. The Reverend Joseph Nesheim officiated. Schutte Funeral Service of Clermont was in charge of the arrangements. Interment was in God's Acre Cemetery.

Louise Valdine Bilden, daughter of Edward E. and Julia (Rear) Bilden, was born May 24, 1910 in Clayton County, near Elgin, Iowa. She passed away Thursday, July 13, 1995 in Thornton Manor at Lansing, Iowa, where she had been a resident for 17 years. She had reached the age of 85 years, one month, and 19 days.

She was baptized in the East Clermont Lutheran Church and attended the public school in Clermont. She spent her entire life in Clermont. Louise loved to bake, cook and garden. She and her sister, Agnes, lived together in Clermont for many years. Later, their sister, Evelyn, came to live with them. Louise became a resident of Thornton Manor in 1977.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Enoch, 3 sisters, Agnes Bilden, Evelyn Bilden and Ellen (Joe) Moe.

Surviving is a sister, Myrtle (Harry) Amundson of Clermont; 2 nieces, Helen (William) Barth of Lindstrom, MN, and Jean (Robert) Larson of Elgin, IA; 2 nephews, Paul Amundson of Canton, OH and Harold Amundson of Clermont, IA; 1 grandniece, Juliana Barth Gulliver and her husband Todd, 2 grandnephews, John (Kathy) Barth of Mount View, MN and David Neuman of Wadena, IA and a great grandniece, Elizabeth Barth.

Louise was a member of the West Clermont Lutheran Church.

Casket bearers were Paul and Harold Amundson, William and John Barth, Dale and Erling Bilden, Robert Larson and Todd Gulliver.

Postville, Iowa newspaper of the time clipping, from Dorothy Schave's obituary collection.