STANGE, Augusta 1855-1957

STANGE, HAUSER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 11/29/2009 at 20:31:45

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Mrs. Stange, 101,
Dies at Charles City

CHARLES CITY, IOWA — Mrs. Augusta Stange, who was nearly 102, died Monday evening at the home of a friend, Elsie Laughery. She had been suffering from a slight cold which she caught just before Christmas.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Hauser Funeral Home with the Rev. Fred W. Ortmeyer officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery.

Mrs. Stange did all of her own cooking and cleaning before going to live with Mrs. Laughery in November, 1954.

She was born in Heinrichwols, Germany, on Feb. 17, 1855. She was married Oct. 3, 1880. She, her husband and daughter, the late Mrs. Chris Hauser, came to the United States two years later and settled in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where he was a harness maker. A year later they moved to Charles City.

Mr. and Mrs. Stange worked for five years as janitors of the Central Methodist Church. Her husband died in June, 1939. She was an ardent politician and had voted Democratic until 1952 when she voted for Eisenhower as she did in 1956.

Surviving are two grandsons, Carl Hauser, Charles City, and Milton Hauser, Findlay, Ohio; a granddaughter, Mrs. W. E. Burkhart, Minneapolis; six great grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

(Mason City Globe-Gazette - Tuesday, January 8, 1957)

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99th BIRTHDAY

CHARLES CITY - Mrs. Auguste Stange, one of Floyd County's oldest residents, observed her 99th birthday anniversary on Wednesday when she was the guest of honor at a party in the home of the Rev. and Mrs. W. C. H. Bergmann.

Mrs. Stange lives alone and does most of her own cooking and cleaning with only occasional assistance from her neighbors. She did not need glasses to read her congratulatory letter from Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower.

Mrs. Stange was born in Heinrichwolz, Germany, on February 17, 1855. She was married in Germany on October 3, 1880, and two years later the Stanges and their infant daughter came to the United States. They settled first in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and a year later came to Charles City.

Her only daughter, Mrs. Chris Hauser, died last year. She has three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Last Sunday Mrs. Stange was honored with a family dinner at the home of her grandson, Carl Hauser, when she saw television for the frist time. She has never owned an automobile or had a telephone in her home. She enjoys listening to the radio, preferring news broadcasts and political speeches, and is an ardent politician.

[Waterloo Courier, Thursday, February 18, 1954]

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Photo of Augusta.

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