Luchsinger, Adelia Isabel, Mrs. Louis Albert, 1881-1957

LUCHSINGER, BAKER, QUICK

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/2/2010 at 21:46:09

MRS. LUCHSINGER DIES AT AGE 75

Funeral services for Mrs. Adelia Luchsinger, 75, former Hawarden resident, who died Wednesday of last week at her home in Salt Lake City, Utah, following a lingering illness, were held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at the First Methodist church here, Rev. Cheter [Chester?] Custer officiating. Burial was at Grace Hill cemetery under the direction of the Barnard Funeral home.

Adelia Isabel Baker was born at Cuba City, Wis., September 11, 1881, a daughter of Julius John and Ann Eliza Quick Baker. On January 8, 1908, she married Louis Albert Luchsinger in Sioux City. Mr. Luchsinger died on June 17, 1942. A daughter, Anita Mae, died in infancy in 1925.

As a child she came with her parents to Ireton, later moving to Hawarden where she lived until her husband, who was with the C. & N. W. Railroad, was transferred to Huron, S.D., in 1932.

Upon the death of her husband she moved to Rochester, Minn., where she made her home with her daughter and son-in-law, who was employed at the Mayo clinic.

In 1946 she moved to Seattle, Wash., where she lived two years before moving to Salt Lake City to make her home with her daughter Lois. While in Salt Lake City she spent five years working in an X-ray office. She was active in Methodist church work in each locality.

Survivors include two daughters, Miss Lois Luchsinger and Mrs. LaVon Winter, both of Salt Lake City; a brother, H. A. Baker of San Bernardino, Calif.; five sisters, Mrs. Edward Peterson and Mrs. Emil Anderson, both of Hawarden, Mrs. C. S. McCarty of Muscatine, Iowa, Mrs. W. W. Sporrer of Huron, S.D., and Mrs. W. H. Heerman of Great Falls, Mont., and three grandchildren.

All of her sisters and both daughters were in Hawarden to attend the funeral.

Source: Hawarden Independent, Jan. 31, 1957.