Eleta (Silliman) Schoenenberger (1968)

CLIFTON, EMERSON, MOORE, SCHOENENBERGER, SILLIMAN

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 1/10/2007 at 19:18:14

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, November 20, 1968
Page 15, Column 7

FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN MINNESOTA

Mrs. Ree Schoenenberger, a former resident of Madison county, died Friday, Nov. 13, at Crookston, Minn., where she had lived in recent years.

Mrs. Schoenenberger was the former Eleta M. Silliman, daughter of Charles and Mary Moore Silliman. She was born in Madison county Feb. 1, 1892, and was 76 years of age at her death.

She was married at Peru Dec. 17, 1914 to Ree Schoenenberger, who survives her. They farmed in Madison county untiul 1921, when they moved to Minnesota. They were parents of a son, who died in infancy.

She was a member of the United Methodist church at Crookston.

In addition to her husband she leaves two sisters, her twin, Mrs. Sylvester Clifton and another sister, Mrs. A. E. Emerson, both of Winterset; and two brothers, W. J. Silliman of Holly, Colo., and Lonnie Silliman of Winterset.

Funeral services were held Saturday from the First United Methodist church of Winterset, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Everett K. Burham. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.
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Coordinator's note: The Minnesota Death Index confirms the date of death as November 13th, but that was a Wednesday, not the Friday given in this obituary.

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