Victoria, Anna Elizabeth, Mrs. Henry J., 1885-1960

VICTORIA, LOHMANN, BAUMGARTEN

Posted By: Lydia Lucas-Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/3/2012 at 08:16:42

Obituary of Ann Elizabeth Victoria -- Died March 10th

Funeral services for Anna Elizabeth Victoria were held Saturday afternoon, March 12th, at the Zion Lutheran Church in Hull, Iowa. Rev. P. A. Kenyon of St. Paul and Zion Lutheran Churches of Hull and Rev. Alvin A. Hook of the American Reformed Church of Orange City conducted the service. Pall bearers were Henry Beckman, Francis De Graaff, Delmar Stange, Dowie Vander Schaaf, Ed Berghorst and Roger Hamilton. Interment was in Hope cemetery.

The deceased was born in Bevensen, Germany on November 28, 1885, and died on March 10, 1960, at the age of 74 years, 3 months and 10 days. Her parents were Heinrick W. Lohmann and Katherine Baumgarten Lohmann.

At the age of 20 years she left Germany and went to England to work for the Lord of Kentford, Esquire. After a few years she became acquainted with friends who planned to visit America and invited Elizabeth to travel with them. She liked America and stayed. She lived in Savannah, Georgia, for a year and then moved to New York, where she made her home until she decided to go to California. On her way to California she stopped at Sheldon, Iowa, was offered employment and stayed.

While in Sheldon she studied practical nursing and was employed in the Hospital at Hull, Iowa. Here she met and married Mr. Henry Victoria in 1923. To this union three children were born, Eleanor, Annabelle and Victor. She spent the remaining years of her life in Hull until she became ill two years ago and went to stay in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roger Hamilton of Orange City, Iowa.

Mrs. Victoria is survived by her three children, Eleanor (Mrs. Frederick V. Hayen of Minneapolis, Minnesota), Annabelle (Mrs. Roger Hamilton of Orange City) and the Rev. Victor V. Victoria of Cuba, Kansas; seven grandchildren and one sister, Doretta Kerner of Germany. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, and two sisters.

Source: Sioux County Index (Hull), March 17, 1960.

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A similar obituary in the Sioux County Capital (March 17) adds this information:

... Mrs. Victoria died early last Thursday morning, March 10, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hamilton, in Orange City. She had been bedfast at the Hamilton home since suffering a first, partially-paralyzing stroke some two years ago. Several subsequent attacks over the intervening months preceded her death, in her sleep, Thursday....