Annie Ploen Struve Frahm

FRAHM, PLOEN, STRUVE, FRIEDRICHSON, ERICKSEN, BOKEN

Posted By: Barbara Nugent (email)
Date: 12/20/2010 at 07:50:14

Obituary from the Struve Genealogy Report compiled by Evelyn Baasch Wieck on file at the Clinton County Historical Society

ANNA PLOEN STRUVE FRAHM

After a lingering and painful illness, Mrs. Thomas Frahm fell into the sleep that knows no waking this side the brighter shore, Thursday, March 26, 1896. Mrs. Frahm was taken sick New Year's day last and has been a great sufferer most of the time since that date. A complication of diseases in which heart trouble was prominent baffled the skill of the physician and the good care of her attendants. Though patient during her suffering and surrounded with all the comforts which could be afforded her, she welcomed death as the only sure relief and her Christian faith and hope led her to anticipate a happier existence in the great beyond.

Annie Ploen was born in Schleswig Holstein, Germany, February 25, 1827. She came to America in 1852, settling in Scott County, Iowa. The following year she was married to Carl Struve. They came to Jackson county in 1855 and in 1859 Mr. Struve died. On October 15, 1860 she was married to Thomas Frahm, who now mourns the loss of a genial companion, a devoted wife. Besides the husband and children there are brothers and sisters and a host of friends to mourn the loss of a noble woman, a true friend and good neighbor. To her first marriage, was given two sons, who died in childhood and two daughters, Mrs. (Bertha) Friedrichson and Maggie Struve who survive her and sorrow because a good mother is taken from them. Three children of the second marriage, John and Earnest Frahm and Mrs. T. (Anna) Ericksen, and Miss Emma Boken to whom she has been a mother, also survive her and mourn her decease. Her children are all grown into useful men and women, an honor to their parents.

Mrs. Frahm was a member of the Lutheran church and lived a Christian life, doing all the good she could in her family and elsewhere. She and her family are highly respected as was signified by the large number present at her funeral and other attentions paid them. The funeral services were held at the Congregation church Friday afternoon. Rev. D. D. Tibbets preached an appropriate sermon and the choir rendered excellent music. The house was crowded with friends, who came to pay the last respect. The remains were encased in an elegant casket, richly decorated with flowers. The family token was a beautiful wreath of smilax and lilies with other fine white flowers, and a large flat bouquet of white carnation with choice ferns for a background. The funeral procession consisted of 36 teams coming from the home and a large number of Miles people who followed the sacred remains to the cemetery where they were laid in a beautiful lined and decorated grave. The pall bearers were Messrs. Wells, Ericksen, Harrington, Mildenstein, Stolled and G. Crawford.