ALBERS, Valtje 1850-1936

ALBERS, DOYEN

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 8/22/2021 at 11:15:08

Funeral Services For Mrs. Albers

Many friends and relatives gathered to pay their last respects at the funeral services held for Mrs. Albert Albers at the Evangelical Reformed church in Alden, Iowa, Monday, March 9th at 2:00 o'clock.

Rev. W. Landsiedel, an intimate friend of the family, officiated, choosing as his text for the German sermon: Isaiah 54, 10, and for the English sermon I Cor. 15, 10.

Relatives and friends from Wellsburg who attended the services were: F. M. Miller, Mrs. Charles Zech, H. H. Doyen, John Doyen, Miss Bertha Doyen, Mrs. K. Ashing, Mrs. H. Luwe, Mrs. H. A. Geerdes, Miss Amanda Neessen, Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Landsiedel, Mrs. D. Claassen, Mr. and Mrs. Sauke Tjaden and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tjaden of Aplington, Iowa.

During the services the following obituary was read.

Mrs. Albert Albers, nee Valtje Doyen, was born Sept. 21, 1850, in Lubbertsfehn, Eastfriesland, Germany. Soon after her birth she was received into the covenant of grace by the administration of holy baptism. In her early youth she received a thorough religious instruction in the fundamental truths of the holy scripture which taught her the way of salvation. Amidst many trials and spiritual adversities of life she found her Lord and Savior. For herself and her loved ones she always entertained the most important thought and desire to be saved, and to confess Jesus. She never felt ashamed in Him. In the school of suffering in which the Lord in her declining years prepared the deceased for the eternal harvest she matured into a golden sheaf to be garnered into His heavenly mansions. She was ready to surrender body and soul to him who was her only comfort in life and in death.

In 1867 she came with her parents, one sister and two brothers to America and settled in Grundy County, Iowa. She was joined in holy wedlock with Albert Albers Oct. 19, 1874, Rev. Dippel of Ackley performing the marriage ceremony. Here in Ackley they first established their home where God blessed their happy union with one son who with her faithful companion survive the deceased.

For 61 years, 4 months, and 26 days by the grace of God they shared life's joys and sorrows together, and the deceased was granted a ripe old age of 85 years, 5 months and 16 days.

In 1876 they moved to the vicinity of Alden and for 19 years made their home in Alden, where they desired to enjoy the fruits of their labors in the eve of their life.

For many years the deceased has been a patient sufferer but since last October has been more helpless, and the infirmities of old age augmented her illness to the termination of her earthly pilgrimage when it pleased Almighty God in His wise providence to release her from her great suffering Friday, March 6th at 12:50 o'clock P.M. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them."

She leaves to mourn, her grief-stricken husband, her son George Albers, her daughter-in-law, Bertha Albers, and three grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and a large circle of other relatives and friends.

Her sister, Mrs. Frank Douglas, died in 1919. One brother, Heye Doyen passed away many years ago and J. C. Doyen died in 1924.

May the God of all solace comfort all mourners as a mother comforts her own and prepare every one for a blessed end.

"Who knows how near my end may be,
Time speeds away and death comes on
How swiftly, O how suddenly
May death be here and life be gone.
My God, for Jesus sake, I pray
Thy peace may bless my dying day."

--Wellsburg Herald (Wellsburg, Iowa), 11 March 1936

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