22 April 1943 - The Lowden News

Mrs Fred E. Meier, 79, passed away at 10:30 p.m. Sunday in the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs A. G. Meier, at Clinton, after being in ill health for some time. She was taken to her son's home about two months ago and a few weeks ago became bedridden. Cancer of the stomach and a weak heart with dropsical ailment caused her death.

Funeral services were held in the Balster and Hargrave Funeral Home here yesterday afternoon with the Rev. F. J. Mittler of Clarence officiating. Members of the choir of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church sang with Mrs Lane Strackbein at the piano. Pallbearers were Fred C. Richmann, Henry Rodenbeck, William Ditz, Julius Miller, Julius Schluter and Carl Esbaum. Mrs Leroy Hansen and daughter, Betty, had charge of flowers. Interment was in the Lowden cemetery.

Wilhelmina Stoecker, daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Stoecker, was born in Luebeck, Germany, April 15, 1864, and was baptized, confirmed and educated there. At the age of 19 she came to America with her brother, the late Henry Stoecker, and wife, five years after her parents came to this country. She came directly to Lowden and has resided her since.

On December 10, 1885, she was married to Fred E. Meier at Lowden. Of the five children born to them, their daughter, Olga, died in infancy, and the youngest son, Lambert, a veteran of World War One, died in 1928. Mr Meier died in 1939.

Surviving are two sons, Alfred G. Meier of Clinton, Richard C. Meier of Clear Lake, and one daughter, Mrs Hedwig Sennett of Lowden; also six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; five brothers, August Stoecker of Wadena, Minn., H. R. Griesbach and R. H. Stoecker of Lowden, Adolph Stoecker of Wheatland and Mathias Stoecker of Peoria, Ill.; and five sisters, Mrs Otto Klahn and Mrs Chris Granzow of Wheatland, Mrs Fred Davidson of Chicago, Mrs Robert Barnes of Mount Vernon and Mrs Jas. V. Milota of Lowden. Five brothers and one sister preceded Mrs Meier in death.