Obit: Strade, Augusta #2 (1863 - 1952)

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Surnames: Strade, Puhlmann, Drake, Schorer, Gibson, Miller, Dittmeyer 
 

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 05/29/1952 
 

Strade, Augusta (2 Apr. 1863 - 22 May 1952)  
 

Curtiss, Wis. - Mrs. Augusta Strade, 84, a pioneer resident of this vicinity, died Thursday morning in the Mercy hospital at Oshkosh.  
 

Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday in the Evangelical and Reformed church. The Rev. Franz Puhlmann officiated and burial was made in the Pine Hill cemetery.  
 

Mrs. Strade, the former Augusta Drake, was born April 2, 1863, in Kiel. She received her education there and was also married there on May 10, 1885, to Frederick Strade. The same year, they moved to Curtiss where they operated a farm. Mr. Strade died in February, 1912. Mrs. Strade had resided on the home farm, which is now operated by a son, Clarence, since they first came here. 
 

She was a member of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Evangelical and Reformed church.  
 

Among her survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Ella Schorer, Mrs. Edna Gibson and Mrs. Peter (Hattie) Miller, Oshkosh; and Mrs. Oscar (Bertha) Dittmeyer, Sheboygan; four sons, Edwin and Clarence, Curtiss; Harry, Oshkosh; and Ben, Sheboygan; 19 grand children; and a brother, Herman Drake, of Kiel.  
 

A daughter and two sons also preceded her in death.