KLEIN, Maria G. (Hoppe) 1914-1999

KLEIN, BEASM, HOPPE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 1/3/2011 at 13:20:11

MARIA G. KLEIN

OSAGE, IOWA - Maria G. Klein, 85, died Friday (Aug. 20, 1999) at Faith Lutheran Home in Osage.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, August 24, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Osage, with the Rev. Dennis Hanson and the Rev. Roy Ott officiating. Interment will be in Manly Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Osage. Champion Funeral Home, 702 State St., Osage, is in charge of funeral arrangements.

Maria was born May 2, 1914, in Mason City, the daughter of Otto and Paula (Beasm) Hoppe. She lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and East Chicago, Indiana.

On January 23, 1954, Maria was united in marriage to Myron Klein in East Chicago, Ind. They moved to the Orchard area in 1956 and to Osage in 1958. Maria was employed by Marr Knitting and Fox River Mills of Osage, retiring in 1985.

She enjoyed knitting and recently was recognized for the knitting of afghans that were used by Hospice. She was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church.

Maria is survived by her husband, Myron Klein, Osage; a son, Raymond Boge and his wife, Nancy, of Crystal Lake, Illinois; two grandchildren, Thomas Boge and his wife, Katie, and their children, Kyle and Kelli, of Olatha, Kansas, and Jill Schlies and her husband, Bill, and their children, Michael and Kathryn, of Waukesha, Wis.; and two sisters, Gertrude Garraffa, Highland, Indiana, and Ruth Anderson, Littleton, Colorado.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister and three brothers.

[Globe Gazette, August 22, 1999]