Bauder, Minnie Mrs. Roy 1914-2010

BAUDER, TANK, GAYER

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/3/2010 at 19:36:57

Bauder, Minnie

Home Town: Hawarden, Iowa
Deceased Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010

Service: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Address: Trinity Lutheran Church
1103 Central AveHawarden, Iowa

　

Obituary: Hawarden, Iowa- Wilhelmina Alvina "Minnie" Bauder, 95, of Hawarden, died Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Hillcrest Health Care Center in Hawarden.
Funeral service will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Hawarden with Rev. Todd Bunge officiating. Burial will follow in the Grace Hill Cemetery. Visitation will begin at noon Tuesday, with the family present from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. at the Porter Funeral Home in Hawarden.
Wilhelmina Alvina "Minnie" Bauder was born July 14, 1914, the fourth of ten children, born to German immigrants, Frederick and Alvina (Tank) Gayer, on the homestead in Plato Township, Southwest of Rock Valley, Iowa. Minnie was baptized and confirmed at the Peace Lutheran Church south of Rock Valley. She attended country school through the eighth grade. Minnie helped her mother raise her siblings and helped her dad on the farm. She worked for young mothers in the neighborhood with newborn babies and did housekeeping.
Minnie was united in marriage with Roy Bauder on February 25, 1936, at the Peace Lutheran Church. They began farming east of Hawarden, Iowa. During their first year they experienced blizzards, flooding, severe drought, and dust storms. Roy and Minnie sold eggs at their farm and had a delivery route in town. After their children were raised, she worked at Otis Radio and Electric for ten years. The couple retired into Hawarden in 1982. Minnie continued to enjoy her flower gardens, playing cards with family and friends, and volunteering at the Hospital Thrift Shop.
Minnie was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, the Ladies Aid and Lamplighters. She was also a member of the Hawarden Hospital Auxiliary and the American Legion Auxiliary. Minnie enjoyed her vegetable and flower gardens and doing needle work. She was active in 4-H, helping her children with their projects.
Roy passed away December 20, 2001. Due to failing eye sight, Minnie moved to Hillcrest Health Care Center on February 14, 2005.
She is survived by one daughter, Marge Dimmick and her husband Don of Hawarden; two sons and their wives, Darrell and Dorothy of Moorhead, Minnesota and Larry and Joann of Hawarden; 8 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; a brother, Robert (Lura) Gayer of Rock Valley; four sisters, Esther Bauder of Rock Valley, Ann Wasser of Hawarden, Dorothy Jones of San Diego, California, and Marcia (Walter) Intorf of Osage, Iowa.
Besides her parents and husband, Minnie was preceded in death by a brother, Fred Jr. "Fritz" Gayer; and three sisters, Martha Gerlach, Emma Moeller, and Louise Heuer.
Porter Funeral Home obit.