Bauman, Florence Susanna 1879-1956

BAUMAN, WHISENAND, SUTFIN, MALLORY, KIES, ALERTSON, ALDRICH, BALL

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 3/3/2011 at 13:26:26

OBITUARY

FLORENCE SUSANNA WHISENAND BAUMAN

Florence Susanna Whisenand was born July 24, 1879, in Sac County, Iowa. She passed away on March 30, 1956, in Malcom, Iowa, at the age of 76 years, 8 months, and 6 days.

She was married on August 30, 1900, to Frank E. Bauman, at Sac City, Iowa. To this union were born eleven children. Two sons died in infancy, a daughter, Mrs. Emmett (Lois) Sutfin preceded her in death in 1944.

Surviving with the husband, are five sons, Leslie of Draper, South Dakota; Harry, of Brooklyn, Iowa; Leroy, Lyle and Harold of Malcom; and three daughters, Mrs. Paul (Alice) Mallory of Chicago; Mrs. Allen (Velma) Kies and Mrs. Earl (Ruby) Alertson of Malcom; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Aldrich of Malcom, and a brother, Geroge Ball of Vale, Oregon. Thirty-two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also mourn her passing.

Mr. and Mrs. Bauman had been married 55 years and 7 months to the day. They were pioneers in the midwest. Their first trip out of Iowa was made by covered wagon, to Oklahoma and return, after a year. Five years were spent farming in Iowa, then they homesteaded in Lyman County, South Dakota, moving there in March 1907. For twenty-nine years they were residents of that state, an active part of every phase of the growing country's life. In 1936 they returned to their native state, spent three years on a farm north of Brooklyn, the moved to a small acreage on the edge of Malcom, where they have since resided.

In July, 1951, Mrs. Bauman suffered a paralytic stroke which left her almost helpless for months. A four year period of slow recovery brought a few months of moderate activity at home. Then another stroke in March, 1955, left her practically bedfast for the past year. During these five years her husband has nursed her and kept the house--climatic months of the beautiful companionship and love that has marked their married life. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1950.

Mrs. Bauman was a beautiful and able writer. She was correspondent for The Sac Sun, a Sac County, Iowa, newspaper from her early teens until some years after the family moved to South Dakota; and for The Draper Democrat, Jones County paper in South Dakota, for some 25 years. From girlhood she kept a day-by-day diary, continuing until the time came when she could no longer write. These diaries are a rich heritage to her family. So also was her letter writing to many friends and relatives who have continually paid tribute to that gift and expressed their sense of loss in not receiving her letters in recent months.

The Bauman home has always been one of those where young people and children gathered en masse and received a perpetual welcome. Children and grandchildren, with their friends, have known and loved the understanding hospitality of "Grandpa and Grandma" Bauman.

From childhood Mrs. Bauman has been active in church life. She and her husband first met in Pleasant Prairie Christian church at Sac City, Iowa. Other church homes in South Dakota and Iowa were Methodist. She was a member of Malcom Methodist church from which she was buried, the memorial services being conducted by Rev. Dwight Garrington, music by Manly Mills. Her family and friends have started a memorial fund for a new church organ in the Malcom church.

Transcriber Note: She is buried in Ivy Hill Cemetery, Malcom, Iowa.