Obit: Baehr, Lorraine (1925 - 1958)

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Surnames: Baehr, Vetterkind, Offord

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 10/30/1958

Baehr, Lorraine (21 FEB 1925 - 26 OCT 1958)

Death came very suddenly Sunday afternoon Oct. 26, 1958, about 3:00 o’clock to Mrs. Lorraine Baehr (nee Vetterkind), in a head on collision of the automobile in which she was a rider, her husband being the driver, and another one, a Mercury, on top of a hill, about two miles north of Highway 65 and 10 miles west of Medford.  She had attained the age of 33 years, 8 months and 5 days.

Born Feb. 21, 1925, at Chippewa Falls, Wis., she was the daughter of Walter Vetterkind and his wife Mae, nee Offord.  She lost her mother when she was a young child, and grew up in the home of her grandparents in the Reseburg (Clark Co., Wis.) area of northwester Clark County.  She was baptized in the Reseburg Lutheran Church in March 1925.  After her marriage to Earl Baehr, route 1, Withee, on Oct. 8, 1945, in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at Reseburg, by Rev. F. H. Sprengler, she joined an adult class, and was confirmed by Pastor Sprengler later in the years at Thorp.  The marriage was blessed with two children, Freddie Earl, aged 11 years in September, and Walter Lee, who was eight years old in July.  Both boys and the father were hospitalized in Medford following the accident that proved fatal to their mother.

Mrs. Earl Baehr was a very well-liked and pleasant woman, with a disposition that endeared her, especially to the young.  She was a Sunday school and Vacation Bible school teacher at St. John’s Lutheran Church, and was one of the most enthusiastic and faithful persons in this group.  It was evident that she did her work out of real love for her Lord and Savior, who was very real to her.  She was also active in civic work for her community, serving as a den mother for a Cub Scout troop and as a leader for 4-H club.  "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with they might."  The loss of such a Christian will be felt, not only in the home, where she was a faithful and hard worker, together with her husband and a wonderful mother to her own boys, but far and wide where her talents were used in God given love.

The funeral services will be held at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Withee, on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 30, at 2:00 p.m.  The body will lie in state at the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home until noon on that day.  Pastor Theodore C. Predoehl’s sermon is based on 2 Timothy 1: 12 - 14, "I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.  Hold Fast the form of sound words, which thou has heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.  That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost, which dwelleth in us."  The singer will be Mrs. Albert Petke; organist, Mrs. Herman Rabska; Pallbearers: Arlis Offord, Don Pitt, Ed Bobb, Tom Bobb, Delbert Richmond, Fred Harp.

The departed is mourned by her sorrowing husband, Earl Baehr, and two sons, Freddie, aged 11, and Walter, aged 8; by her husband parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Baehr.

Flowers were carried by Evon Pitt, Beatrice Offord, Myrtle Harp, Gladys Bob, Arlene Bobb, Shirley Lang.