----Source: TRG - Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection 1/10/1996

GERTRUDE SCHUETTE

Gertrude Tena Schuette, 87, Aurora, Col., died Saturday, Dec. 23, 1995, at her home. Burial will be in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Gertrude Tena Severson was born on Jan. 16, 1908, in Greenwood, Clark County, to Simon and May (nee Sheldon) Severson. She married Lester Schuette on Nov. 28, 1931, in Unity. They owned a farm in the town of Beaver until 1977, when they moved to Colorado. In her later years, she became an accomplished artist, doing oil painting and Norwegian rosemaling. She also enjoyed teaching classes in both at the Aurora Senior Center for the past 16 years.

Survivors include one daughter, Marion (Lyland) Baumann, Aurora, Col. two grandsons, James and Joseph Baumann, Aurora, Col. and four sisters, Ann Severson, Milwukee Lieda Kurtzheim, Grace Luntz and Dorothy Molle, Spencer.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, two brothers and four sisters.