YOUNG CHILDREN ARE MOTHERLESS
Loss of Wife Darkens Home of Young Glencoe Farmer

The late Mrs. Fannie Dascher, wife of Albert Alsleben living one mile north of Glencoe, whose death due to influenza-pneumonia following a week's sickness was chronicled in last week's edition of the Enterprise, was 24 years of age at the time of her demise. She was born June 8, 1894, and died November 17 last. Private funeral services were conducted at the home by Rev. E. Kolbe on the following Monday.

The deceased was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Simeon (Mary) Dascher, and after the death of her parents she spent many of her girlhood years with her sister, Mrs. John Ohland at Langdon, North Dakota, receiving her education in the public school at that place.

She married Albert Alsleben on June 12, 1912, and two daughters Evelyne (5 years) and Mildred (2 years) are left motherless with the grief-stricken husband. Her death is made all the more deplorable and lamentable considering the tender age of these little ones.

She is survived by four sisters and seven brothers; they are Mrs. Frank (Anna) Stresemann, Winthrop; Christ Dascher, Buffalo Lake; Matt Dascher, Hutchinson; Mrs. John Ohland, Kincaid, Saskatchewan; Mrs. Clarence (Mary) Howe, Velva, North Dakota; Albert Dascher, Hannover, North Dakota; Henry Dascher, Spokane, Washington; Fred Dascher, Biscay; Mrs. George (Clara) Fleischer, Brainerd; and Charles Dascher and Simeon Dascher of Glencoe.

The late Mrs. Alsleben was beloved and respected by neighbors and friends who deeply regret her death and sympathize with the husband and children in their irreparable loss.

-Glencoe Enterprise, November 28, 1918, page 1

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Fanny D. (Fannie) Dascher (1894–1918) was born at/near Biscay, McLeod County, Minnesota on June 3, 1894. Fanny was only six-years-old when her father, Simeon, died in 1900 and only 12-years-old when her mother, Marie, died in 1906. With both of her parents now dead, Fanny spent many of her formative years with her older sister, Elsie (Dascher) Ohland, in Langdon, North Dakota, and this is probably where she received her public school education.

Fanny married Albert Andrew Alsleben on June 12, 1912 at Glencoe. Albert Alsleben, the son of William and Agnes Alsleben, was born on August 4, 1887. Fanny and Albert had two children, Evelyn Clara Agnes and Mildred Marie. Fanny (Dascher) Alsleben died at the age of 24 on November 17, 1918 during an influenza/pneumonia epidemic. Fanny is buried next to her sister, Clara, and parents in the Glencoe City (Hillcrest) Cemetery, Glencoe, Minnesota.

In 1919, Albert Alsleben married Emma Gaulke, and Evelyn and Mildred were raised by them. Albert and Emma Alsleben had two sons, Maynard and Ellsworth. Albert died on December 2, 1970 and is buried with his second wife, Emma, in the First Lutheran section of the Glencoe Cemetery, Glencoe, Minnesota.

Fanny (Dascher) Alsleben one was of fourteen children born to Simeon Adam and Marie Elizabeth (Ortloff) Dascher. Her siblings included: Christopher Adam Dascher, Simeon Andrew Dascher, Elizabeth (Dascher) Ohland, Charles P. Dascher, Frederick Louis Dascher, Albert J. Dascher, Marie Elizabeth (Dascher) Howe, Matthais Adam Dascher, Anna (Dascher) Stresemann, Henry F. Dascher, Clara (Dascher) Fleischer, and two babies who died at birth.