Emma (Hitz) Mosebach (1876-1949)

HITZ, MOSEBACH, HARMON, CONRAD, CARLSON, FAUSCH

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/1/2023 at 21:36:24

From The Slater News May 26, 1949 (page 1)

Rites Sunday for Mrs. Fred Mosebach

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Mosebach were held from the Salem church in Alleman Sunday afternoon with Rev. F. E. Stucki officiating.

Lester Moore sang "The Lord's Prayer" and "Sunrise Tomorrow."

Interment was made in the Lincoln cemetery.

Mrs. Mosebach became ill last September and submitted to a number of operations due to cancer. She passed away May 19 at the Lutheran hospital in Des Moines.

She is survived by her husband, Fred W. Mosebach, who is seriously ill, and five children: Mrs. Erma Harmon of Slater, Earl of Sheldahl, Albert of Melbourne, Mrs. Ella Rose Conrad of Perry and Mrs. Arlene Carlson of Luther; a sister, Mrs. Anna Fausch and a brother, Albert C. Hitz, of Alleman; 13 grandchildren, nieces and nephews and other more distant relatives and a host of friends.

Mrs. Mosebach was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Hitz. She was born on Feb. 11, 1876, in Lincoln township, Polk county, and was 73 years, 3 months and 8 days of age at the time of her death. She was baptized in infancy and was received into communicant after proper instruction into the membership of the Salem Reformed church of Alleman on May 18, 1890, during the pastorage of the Rev. F. W. Mosebach. She was a devoted and faithful member of the church.

She attended the rural school of her neighborhood and spent her youthful years on the parental farm. She was a member of the church choir of which her father was a long-time director, and also participated in all the church and community activities of her time. At the age of 17 she lost her mother by death and was thus compelled to assume the home responsibilities.

On Dec. 4, 1902, she joined in holy wedlock to Fred W. Mosebach by her husband's father the Rev. F. W. Mosebach. To this union were born the five children who survive her. They lived on a farm near Alleman and later moved to their farm two miles southwest of Sheldahl. In 1933 they purchased a home in Sheldahl.

Mrs. Mosebach possessed a vast amount of common sense and tact and a cheerful disposition, always ready to render service where ever needed and to all alike. She reared her children in strict Christian rectitude and high standards of Christian living. She loved her church and with her husband was rarely missing in the Bible class and in church. She was a charter member of the Salem Ladies Aid, besides helping her husband in his tasks as long-time treasurer of the church.

Blessed be her memory.