Goeringer, Edna (Miss) 1917-1938

GOERINGER

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke--Volunteer
Date: 1/12/2017 at 20:27:55

Source: Sioux County Index (4-8-1938)

Born: November 21, 1917
Died: March 25, 1938

The remains of Miss Edna Goeringer of Menno, South Dakota, were brought to Hull last week and services were held Saturday afternoon from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Reverend A. F. Zenk, the pastor conducting the services, with Weir and Claerbout funeral directors, in charge. The deceased had been an invalid for many years. The pallbearers were three of her brothers and three brothers-in-law, namely: Herman Schumacher, William Hollander, Fred Hollander, Ernest, Ewald and Otto Goeringer.

Miss Goeringer died in Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, March 25. Besides the sorrowing parents, Reverend and Mrs. Edward Goeringer, formerly of this place, she is survived by five sisters: Erma (Mrs. William Hollander), Meta(Mrs. Herman Schumacher), Hilda (Mrs. Fred Hollander), Ella (Mrs. Albert) Heinle), and Viola; and five brothers: Ernest, Ewald, Otto, Arthur and Walter; and an aged grandfather.

The following obituary was read at the services held Saturday:

Edna Mathilda Margaretha Goeringer was born at Rock Rapids, Iowa, on November 21, 1917. She was baptized on December 16, 1937 in the Lutheran Faith and thus entered into fellowship with the triune God. In May, 1915, she came with the family to the Hull community to live in the parsonage of St. Paul’s Lutheran, where her father took up the work of pastor. Developing perfectly normal as any child she joined with the long line of eager children to attend school at the proper ge. All seemed well until the twelfth year of her short life when it became noticeable that she loved solitude. Not much was thought of this at first, but becoming more marked as the days and months passed this condition filled the parents with concern for Edna’s further development. Her condition became such that she seldom went out. They took her to Menno, South Dakota with the family. Few people in Menno have seen her as she very seldom left the bed, but hardly ever the house. Medical care was a little avail, giving only temporary relief, the general condition growing worse, and hope for a cure vanished Her last days were spent in the Sacred Heart Hospital at Yankton, where an efficient medical staff and hospital staff gave her the best of care in an effort to relieve the strain. Hope for recovery was abandoned.

Now over her short span of life we may well write the memorable words of Saint Jacob: “ Few and evil have been my days.”

In her childhood days she was a constant companion of her sister, Irene, with whom her soul now is joined in the realm of light and beside her mortal remains shall now rest in our graveyard to await the glorious resurrection at the dawn of eternity.

And in her going to rest I am sure the fervent prayers of her parents find their answer in the assurance that Jesus is the resurrection and the life that he liveth and believeth, although he be dead, yet shall he live.

Her mortal soul was released from the bonds of mortal clay on March 29 to rest with Jesus.

Her age was 20 years, 4 months and 5 days.