When Lillian Lydia Eggeman was born on July 2, 1911, in New Haven, Indiana, her father, Albert, was 22, and her mother, Wilhemina, was 23. As a child she lived for a short while in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but spent the majority of her childhood growing up in Royal Oak, Michigan. Lillian was the oldest of five children. She had one sister, Edna and three brothers, Edgar, Harold and Vincent. When her father died, Lillian dropped out school at the age of 16 to care for her mother who was in a wheelchair.
She married Frederick Christ Louis Niemeyer on August 23, 1932, in Preble, Indiana, and moved into a house on Holton Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana where she remained for most of her life until she became ill later in life. Fred and Lillian had one child, Dale, during their marriage.
Lillian was a homemaker and liked to can the vegetables from their garden. She always had a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies for her grandchildren which Fred liked extra crunchy to dip into his coffee.
She spent the last few months of her life living with her son, Dale and his wife, and died from heart disease on February 2, 1987, in a hospital in Toledo, Ohio, at the age of 75. She was buried in Covington Memorial Gardens in Fort Wayne, Indiana with her husband, Fred.
She married Frederick Christ Louis Niemeyer on August 23, 1932, in Preble, Indiana, and moved into a house on Holton Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana where she remained for most of her life until she became ill later in life. Fred and Lillian had one child, Dale, during their marriage.
Lillian was a homemaker and liked to can the vegetables from their garden. She always had a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies for her grandchildren which Fred liked extra crunchy to dip into his coffee.
She spent the last few months of her life living with her son, Dale and his wife, and died from heart disease on February 2, 1987, in a hospital in Toledo, Ohio, at the age of 75. She was buried in Covington Memorial Gardens in Fort Wayne, Indiana with her husband, Fred.
When Lillian Lydia Eggeman was born on July 2, 1911, in New Haven, Indiana, her father, Albert, was 22, and her mother, Wilhemina, was 23. As a child she lived for a short while in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but spent the majority of her childhood growing up in Royal Oak, Michigan. Lillian was the oldest of five children. She had one sister, Edna and three brothers, Edgar, Harold and Vincent. When her father died, Lillian dropped out school at the age of 16 to care for her mother who was in a wheelchair.
She married Frederick Christ Louis Niemeyer on August 23, 1932, in Preble, Indiana, and moved into a house on Holton Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana where she remained for most of her life until she became ill later in life. Fred and Lillian had one child, Dale, during their marriage.
Lillian was a homemaker and liked to can the vegetables from their garden. She always had a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies for her grandchildren which Fred liked extra crunchy to dip into his coffee.
She spent the last few months of her life living with her son, Dale and his wife, and died from heart disease on February 2, 1987, in a hospital in Toledo, Ohio, at the age of 75. She was buried in Covington Memorial Gardens in Fort Wayne, Indiana with her husband, Fred.
She married Frederick Christ Louis Niemeyer on August 23, 1932, in Preble, Indiana, and moved into a house on Holton Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana where she remained for most of her life until she became ill later in life. Fred and Lillian had one child, Dale, during their marriage.
Lillian was a homemaker and liked to can the vegetables from their garden. She always had a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies for her grandchildren which Fred liked extra crunchy to dip into his coffee.
She spent the last few months of her life living with her son, Dale and his wife, and died from heart disease on February 2, 1987, in a hospital in Toledo, Ohio, at the age of 75. She was buried in Covington Memorial Gardens in Fort Wayne, Indiana with her husband, Fred.
