SCHMIDT, Opal E. 1913-2004

SCHMIDT, ADOLPHS, CRAWFORD

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/20/2009 at 20:25:25

OPAL E. SCHMIDT

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA — Opal E. Schmidt, 91, of St. Ansgar, died Wednesday (Nov. 3, 2004) at the Good Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in St. Ansgar with the Rev. Byron Northwick officiating. Burial will be in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in St. Ansgar.

Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church.

Opal Ella Leona Crawford, daughter, of Loyal and Jenetta (Adolphs) Crawford was born on Oct. 8, 1913, in Franklin County in Hampton.

She grew up in this area and attended a rural school in Mott Township northwest of Hampton for eight years. After graduating from the eighth grade, she attended Chapin High School, graduating in 1930.

On Feb. 22, 1933, she was united in marriage to Albert W. Schmidt of Garner at Trinity Lutheran Church, Hampton. They farmed for three years in the Latimer area and then moved to Belmond, where she assisted her husband in operating the Schmidt Insurance Agency for 12 years. In November 1949, along with her family, she moved to a farm in Newburg Township, west of St. Ansgar. After the death of her husband, Albert, in 1974, she then moved to St. Ansgar in 1975.

To this union, four children were born. Wm. Albert, Sharon Kay, Ronald Jerome and Allan Craig. Three of the children died shortly after birth. Opal had seven brothers and three sisters. She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church and a member of the Esther Circle.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert, three infant children, her parents, six brothers and three sisters.

Opal is survived by her son, Allan and wife Marilyn; two grandchildren, Scott Schmidt of Catheral City, Calif., and Michele Hemann and husband, Kurt, of Stacyville, and three great-grandchildren, Konner, Kraig, and Kasey Hemann.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar, (641) 713-4920.

[Globe Gazette]