Bedford Times-Press, October 2009
Bose, Esther Marie Zabel - Funeral services for Esther Bose, age 98, of Lenox, who died Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at Greater Regional Hospice Home in Creston were held Friday, October 9, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at the United Presbyterian Church in Lenox. Visitation were held Friday morning at the church from 9:00 a.m. until service time. Interment was held at North Fairview Cemetery in Lenox.
Esther Marie Bose was born on January 4, 1911, the second of eleven children in the family of Fred and Minnie (Niemann) Zabel. The family lived on a farm four miles southwest of Johnson, Nebraska. She was baptized on January 29, 1911. When Esther was eight years old, the family moved to Smith county, Kansas where she grew up on a farm near the small town of Athol, and was confirmed at St. John Lutheran Church on January 21, 1925. She attended Pleasant Ridge Elementary School and graduated from Athol High School with the Class of 1929. Esther received her teaching certificate from ort Hays Teachers College in Hays, Kansas, and taught in one-room schools in Kansas for eight terms during the Depression and “Dust-Bowl” years of the Thirties.
On April 23, 1939, she was united in marriage to Elmer Bose. The couple lived in Athol, Kansas, until 1954, when they moved to Lenox, Iowa, and purchased the First National Bank with Esther’s brother, Ralph Zabel. They were blessed to share over sixty-three years of marriage together and enjoyed their time together playing golf and cards with family and friends.
Esther was a member of the Lenox United Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Women’s Association. She belonged to several bridge clubs, loved to cook, enjoyed knitting and crocheting, and valued the time spent with her children and grandchildren playing games and working crossword puzzles. Grandchildren and great-grandchildren were a lift for her spirit and a joy for her heart!
Arrangements were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Home of Lenox.
Bose, Esther Marie Zabel - Funeral services for Esther Bose, age 98, of Lenox, who died Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at Greater Regional Hospice Home in Creston were held Friday, October 9, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at the United Presbyterian Church in Lenox. Visitation were held Friday morning at the church from 9:00 a.m. until service time. Interment was held at North Fairview Cemetery in Lenox.
Esther Marie Bose was born on January 4, 1911, the second of eleven children in the family of Fred and Minnie (Niemann) Zabel. The family lived on a farm four miles southwest of Johnson, Nebraska. She was baptized on January 29, 1911. When Esther was eight years old, the family moved to Smith county, Kansas where she grew up on a farm near the small town of Athol, and was confirmed at St. John Lutheran Church on January 21, 1925. She attended Pleasant Ridge Elementary School and graduated from Athol High School with the Class of 1929. Esther received her teaching certificate from ort Hays Teachers College in Hays, Kansas, and taught in one-room schools in Kansas for eight terms during the Depression and “Dust-Bowl” years of the Thirties.
On April 23, 1939, she was united in marriage to Elmer Bose. The couple lived in Athol, Kansas, until 1954, when they moved to Lenox, Iowa, and purchased the First National Bank with Esther’s brother, Ralph Zabel. They were blessed to share over sixty-three years of marriage together and enjoyed their time together playing golf and cards with family and friends.
Esther was a member of the Lenox United Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Women’s Association. She belonged to several bridge clubs, loved to cook, enjoyed knitting and crocheting, and valued the time spent with her children and grandchildren playing games and working crossword puzzles. Grandchildren and great-grandchildren were a lift for her spirit and a joy for her heart!
Arrangements were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Home of Lenox.
Bedford Times-Press, October 2009
Bose, Esther Marie Zabel - Funeral services for Esther Bose, age 98, of Lenox, who died Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at Greater Regional Hospice Home in Creston were held Friday, October 9, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at the United Presbyterian Church in Lenox. Visitation were held Friday morning at the church from 9:00 a.m. until service time. Interment was held at North Fairview Cemetery in Lenox.
Esther Marie Bose was born on January 4, 1911, the second of eleven children in the family of Fred and Minnie (Niemann) Zabel. The family lived on a farm four miles southwest of Johnson, Nebraska. She was baptized on January 29, 1911. When Esther was eight years old, the family moved to Smith county, Kansas where she grew up on a farm near the small town of Athol, and was confirmed at St. John Lutheran Church on January 21, 1925. She attended Pleasant Ridge Elementary School and graduated from Athol High School with the Class of 1929. Esther received her teaching certificate from ort Hays Teachers College in Hays, Kansas, and taught in one-room schools in Kansas for eight terms during the Depression and “Dust-Bowl” years of the Thirties.
On April 23, 1939, she was united in marriage to Elmer Bose. The couple lived in Athol, Kansas, until 1954, when they moved to Lenox, Iowa, and purchased the First National Bank with Esther’s brother, Ralph Zabel. They were blessed to share over sixty-three years of marriage together and enjoyed their time together playing golf and cards with family and friends.
Esther was a member of the Lenox United Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Women’s Association. She belonged to several bridge clubs, loved to cook, enjoyed knitting and crocheting, and valued the time spent with her children and grandchildren playing games and working crossword puzzles. Grandchildren and great-grandchildren were a lift for her spirit and a joy for her heart!
Arrangements were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Home of Lenox.
Bose, Esther Marie Zabel - Funeral services for Esther Bose, age 98, of Lenox, who died Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at Greater Regional Hospice Home in Creston were held Friday, October 9, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at the United Presbyterian Church in Lenox. Visitation were held Friday morning at the church from 9:00 a.m. until service time. Interment was held at North Fairview Cemetery in Lenox.
Esther Marie Bose was born on January 4, 1911, the second of eleven children in the family of Fred and Minnie (Niemann) Zabel. The family lived on a farm four miles southwest of Johnson, Nebraska. She was baptized on January 29, 1911. When Esther was eight years old, the family moved to Smith county, Kansas where she grew up on a farm near the small town of Athol, and was confirmed at St. John Lutheran Church on January 21, 1925. She attended Pleasant Ridge Elementary School and graduated from Athol High School with the Class of 1929. Esther received her teaching certificate from ort Hays Teachers College in Hays, Kansas, and taught in one-room schools in Kansas for eight terms during the Depression and “Dust-Bowl” years of the Thirties.
On April 23, 1939, she was united in marriage to Elmer Bose. The couple lived in Athol, Kansas, until 1954, when they moved to Lenox, Iowa, and purchased the First National Bank with Esther’s brother, Ralph Zabel. They were blessed to share over sixty-three years of marriage together and enjoyed their time together playing golf and cards with family and friends.
Esther was a member of the Lenox United Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Women’s Association. She belonged to several bridge clubs, loved to cook, enjoyed knitting and crocheting, and valued the time spent with her children and grandchildren playing games and working crossword puzzles. Grandchildren and great-grandchildren were a lift for her spirit and a joy for her heart!
Arrangements were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Home of Lenox.
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