HARDEN, Lisetta Regina (Schmidt) 1907-2012

HARDEN, SCHMIDT, BRANDAU

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/31/2012 at 13:31:51

Lisetta Harden

Date Of Birth: July 29, 1907
Date Of Death: March 20, 2012

Lisetta Harden, 104, of Osage, formerly of Charles City, died Tuesday, March 20, 2012, at Faith Lutheran Home, Osage.

Funeral services for Lisetta Harden will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Eden Presbyterian Church, rural Rudd with Pastor John Bates officiating. Burial will be in the Eden Presbyterian Cemetery. Friends may call at the Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday at the church an hour prior to the service.

Lisetta Regina Schmidt Harden was born July 29, 1907, near Rudd, the daughter of Adam and Margaret (Brandau) Schmidt.

At the age of two, her parents moved to a farm in the Floyd area. She attended rural country school and later Floyd Consolidated School. Following graduation, Lisetta attended the University of Minnesota before transferring to Gates Business College in Waterloo. She graduated with a degree in secretarial work and began working in Waterloo. Lisetta later returned to Charles City and worked at the Hart Parr. For years, she was a homemaker and after her daughters graduated high school, she returned to work as a secretary. She worked in the legal firm of A.C. Campbell and then with Frye and McCartney until retirement.

On February 1, 1935, Lisetta was united in marriage to Harold E. Harden at the Eden Presbyterian Manse. They lived in the Floyd area and on March 1, 1938, moved to Aplington.

In 1943, they purchased a farm near Floyd where they lived until August 1989 when they moved to Charles City. She was baptized and confirmed at Eden Presbyterian Church north of Rudd. Later, she became a member of the First Congregational Church in Charles City. She served as a Sunday school teacher, member of the Women of Moose, Deaconess on the Prudential Board and as secretary of the General Women's Fellowship. Lisetta was president for many years of the Parent Teacher Association for the Floyd Consolidated School and was also active in the Band Parents Club.

Living family members include two daughters, Myrna Jean (Daryl) Jakoubek of Floyd, Marilyn Faye (R. Jon) Ehrman of Madison, Ala.; seven grandchildren, Scot (Holi) Schweinfurth of Garner, Susan (John Mansfield) Schweinfurth of Riverside, Calif., Sean (Cherie) Schweinfurth of Charles City, Sandra (Brad) Bean of Floyd, Chad (Deanne) Jakoubek of Floyd, Kimberly Young of Carrollton, Tex., Julie (Andrew) Kupersmith of College Point, N.Y.; 15 great grandchildren; and five great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Harold; two brothers, Eugene and Justus Schmidt; a sister, Sidonia Philipp; and a son-in-law, Kenneth Schweinfurth.

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