Lydia (Griewe) WELLEMEYER

WELLEMEYER, GRIEWE, ELL, BACON, CARLSON, HANSEN, HANSON, MOHLER, HAHNKE, ORTMEYER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/20/2010 at 18:45:08

3 August 1949
Klemme Times --Klemme, Iowa.

27 February 1880 -- 31 July 1949

Lydia Wellemeyer was born 27 February 1880 on a farm in Liberty Township, Hancock County, Iowa; the third of a family of six children born to her parents, Henry and Mary Ell Griewe. She attended the rural schools and also became a member of the Liberty Methodist Church at the time of her confirmation. In 1906, at the age of twenty-six, Lydia Griewe and Arthur Wellemeyer were married. They farmed for one year, and then moved to Klemme. Here they built a house, raised their family of five, and were a part of Klemme life for over forty years. Lydia Wellemeyer was a good mother and a neat housekeeper, of quiet disposition, her influence was restful in the home and sweet and peaceful in her community contacts. And now after a lifetime of service to her family and friends and just before the infirmaries of old age arrive, the Master says well done, and a heart attack took her from us early Sunday morning. She reached the age of 69 years, 5 months and 4 days. She leaves, besides her husband, five children: Andrew Wellemeyer, Springfield, Missouri; Ethel, Mrs. Don Bacon of Lake Mills, Iowa; Clarice, Mrs. James Carlson of Glen Flora, Wisconsin; Ruth, Mrs. Burton Hansen {Hanson] of Wesley, Iowa and Nora, Mrs. Richard Mohler of Dayton, Ohio; two sisters Mrs. Albert Hahnke of Garden City, Minnesota and Mrs. Fred Ortmeyer of Algona, Iowa and two brothers Rev. F. C. Griewe of Garner, Iowa and John E. Griewe of St. Paul, Minnesota; also eight grandchildren. Funeral services were held this Wednesday afternoon at the Klemme Methodist Church. Burial was in the Ell Township Cemetery.