Mrs. Christina Schlecht, 82, pioneer resident of the Gackle community, died Monday afternoon, August 23, 1965, at High-Acres Manor in Jamestown where she had been a resident for about seven weeks.

Christina Speidel was born Dec. 25, 1882 in Beresina, South Russia, the daughter of Christian and Katherina Goehner Speidel. At an early age, she came with her parents to the U. S., when they settled at Ashley. They moved to a farm 12 miles southeast of Gackle in Logan County where her parents homesteaded. She grew to womanhood in the community and was married to Karl Schlecht in 1901.

They began farming 13 miles south of Gackle. Following the death of her husband in 1936, she continued to live on the farm with her children until the fall of 1941 when she moved into Gackle. In 1959, she made her home at the Manor St. Joseph in Edgeley until she entered Hi-Acres Manor in Jamestown.

Preceding her in death, her husband Karl and the following children: Mrs. Fred (Ottilia) Rudolph, Mrs. Arthur (Alma) Janke. In infancy...Gothilf & Gotlieb.
Surviving are nine children, Christ and Hilbert Schlecht and Mrs. Stanley Weir (Elsie), Everett, Wash.; Arthur Schlecht, Battleground, Wash.; Mrs. Rudolph (Anna) Wolf, Mathias, Enderlin; Mrs. Jacob E. (Katie) Janke, Ernest Schlecht, Mrs. Eddie H. (Emma) Hehn, Gackle; 39 grandchildren; 53 great grandchildren; four brothers and three sisters. Henry Speidel, McLaughlin, S. D.; Gottlieb Speidel, Wishek; Edward Speidel, Tacoma, Wash.; Emanuel Speidel, Jamestown; Mrs. Jacob Schadler, Dryden, Wash.; Mrs. Ben Schadler, Cashmere, Wash.; Mrs. LeRoy Swanson, Litchfield, Minn.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the First Congregation Church in Gackle with Rev. David Blaskowsky, pastor of the Church of God in Gackle officiating. Burial will be in the rural Friedenstahl Cemetery 13 miles South of Gackle.

(Napoleon Homestead, ND, August 25, 1965)