BROWNWOOD Texas 1937—Brownwood News—Mette Catherine Thompson Boysen, age 71, a resident of Brown County for nearly 60 years and Brownwood 50 years, passed away quietly Sunday afternoon at her home at 403 East Lee Street following a courageous battle with heart disease. She was a much admired and well liked pillar of the community and matriarch of a distinguished Brownwood family.
She was born Mette Catherina Botilla Baagoe June 12, 1865 in the small farming community of Blaakrog, in the Parish of Varnaes, county of Aabenraa-Sonderburg, Denmark to Johann Christian Baagoe and Catherina Margaretha Anderson. She was Christened July 16, 1865 in the historic Varnaes Lutheran Church, a church founded in 1150 AD. On May 3, 1972, at age 6, Mrs Boysen emigrated with her family through the Balinstadt Emigration Center in Hamburg, Germany on the SS Hansa, arriving at Castle Gardens Immigration Center in Battery Park New York May 9, 1872. She was confirmed on May 12 1878 at age 12 at Our Savior's Danish Lutheran Church in Brooklyn.
The family changed their name to Thompson shortly after arriving and lived and worked in the Brooklyn Danish Red Hook area for 6 years. They immigrated to Brown County through Galveston in the summer 1878.
On October 19, 1888 at age 23 Mrs Boysen married Boy Stephanus Boysen at St Johns Episcopal Church on Main Street and she resided in Brownwood for the rest of her life. Uniquely, the two met in Brown county when Mr Boysen was shopping for livestock for his butcher shop, but in the early 1870's both lived only 23 miles apart but were unknown to each other when Mr Boysen apprenticed in a butcher shop in Flensburg, Germany, just across the new border created with Denmark's 1864 defeat in the Second Schleswig War. To this union were born six sons and two daughters. She was a member of the Danish Lutheran church.
Funeral services are to be held at 5 o'clock this afternoon from the Austin-Morris Funeral Chapel with Rev. C.P. Owen officiating. Interment will be made in the Greenleaf Cemetery with Austin-Morris Funeral Home in charge.
Pallbearers will be Jno. T. Yantis Brooke Ramey, U.R. Groom, Clyde McIntosh, Earl Batton and Dean Rippetoe.
Survivors are her husband of nearly 50 years, Boy Stephanus Boysen; six sons, J. Jesse Boysen of Levelland, B. Maurice of Houston; Karl C. of Edinburg, S. Ferdinand of Fort Worth, A Eitel of Pharr and Marcus W. Boysen of Brownwood; two daughters Mrs. Ida Catherine Lawrence of Ysleta, Texas, and Mrs. Stevie J. Vaughn of Brownwood. Also, twelve grand-children.
She was born Mette Catherina Botilla Baagoe June 12, 1865 in the small farming community of Blaakrog, in the Parish of Varnaes, county of Aabenraa-Sonderburg, Denmark to Johann Christian Baagoe and Catherina Margaretha Anderson. She was Christened July 16, 1865 in the historic Varnaes Lutheran Church, a church founded in 1150 AD. On May 3, 1972, at age 6, Mrs Boysen emigrated with her family through the Balinstadt Emigration Center in Hamburg, Germany on the SS Hansa, arriving at Castle Gardens Immigration Center in Battery Park New York May 9, 1872. She was confirmed on May 12 1878 at age 12 at Our Savior's Danish Lutheran Church in Brooklyn.
The family changed their name to Thompson shortly after arriving and lived and worked in the Brooklyn Danish Red Hook area for 6 years. They immigrated to Brown County through Galveston in the summer 1878.
On October 19, 1888 at age 23 Mrs Boysen married Boy Stephanus Boysen at St Johns Episcopal Church on Main Street and she resided in Brownwood for the rest of her life. Uniquely, the two met in Brown county when Mr Boysen was shopping for livestock for his butcher shop, but in the early 1870's both lived only 23 miles apart but were unknown to each other when Mr Boysen apprenticed in a butcher shop in Flensburg, Germany, just across the new border created with Denmark's 1864 defeat in the Second Schleswig War. To this union were born six sons and two daughters. She was a member of the Danish Lutheran church.
Funeral services are to be held at 5 o'clock this afternoon from the Austin-Morris Funeral Chapel with Rev. C.P. Owen officiating. Interment will be made in the Greenleaf Cemetery with Austin-Morris Funeral Home in charge.
Pallbearers will be Jno. T. Yantis Brooke Ramey, U.R. Groom, Clyde McIntosh, Earl Batton and Dean Rippetoe.
Survivors are her husband of nearly 50 years, Boy Stephanus Boysen; six sons, J. Jesse Boysen of Levelland, B. Maurice of Houston; Karl C. of Edinburg, S. Ferdinand of Fort Worth, A Eitel of Pharr and Marcus W. Boysen of Brownwood; two daughters Mrs. Ida Catherine Lawrence of Ysleta, Texas, and Mrs. Stevie J. Vaughn of Brownwood. Also, twelve grand-children.
BROWNWOOD Texas 1937—Brownwood News—Mette Catherine Thompson Boysen, age 71, a resident of Brown County for nearly 60 years and Brownwood 50 years, passed away quietly Sunday afternoon at her home at 403 East Lee Street following a courageous battle with heart disease. She was a much admired and well liked pillar of the community and matriarch of a distinguished Brownwood family.
She was born Mette Catherina Botilla Baagoe June 12, 1865 in the small farming community of Blaakrog, in the Parish of Varnaes, county of Aabenraa-Sonderburg, Denmark to Johann Christian Baagoe and Catherina Margaretha Anderson. She was Christened July 16, 1865 in the historic Varnaes Lutheran Church, a church founded in 1150 AD. On May 3, 1972, at age 6, Mrs Boysen emigrated with her family through the Balinstadt Emigration Center in Hamburg, Germany on the SS Hansa, arriving at Castle Gardens Immigration Center in Battery Park New York May 9, 1872. She was confirmed on May 12 1878 at age 12 at Our Savior's Danish Lutheran Church in Brooklyn.
The family changed their name to Thompson shortly after arriving and lived and worked in the Brooklyn Danish Red Hook area for 6 years. They immigrated to Brown County through Galveston in the summer 1878.
On October 19, 1888 at age 23 Mrs Boysen married Boy Stephanus Boysen at St Johns Episcopal Church on Main Street and she resided in Brownwood for the rest of her life. Uniquely, the two met in Brown county when Mr Boysen was shopping for livestock for his butcher shop, but in the early 1870's both lived only 23 miles apart but were unknown to each other when Mr Boysen apprenticed in a butcher shop in Flensburg, Germany, just across the new border created with Denmark's 1864 defeat in the Second Schleswig War. To this union were born six sons and two daughters. She was a member of the Danish Lutheran church.
Funeral services are to be held at 5 o'clock this afternoon from the Austin-Morris Funeral Chapel with Rev. C.P. Owen officiating. Interment will be made in the Greenleaf Cemetery with Austin-Morris Funeral Home in charge.
Pallbearers will be Jno. T. Yantis Brooke Ramey, U.R. Groom, Clyde McIntosh, Earl Batton and Dean Rippetoe.
Survivors are her husband of nearly 50 years, Boy Stephanus Boysen; six sons, J. Jesse Boysen of Levelland, B. Maurice of Houston; Karl C. of Edinburg, S. Ferdinand of Fort Worth, A Eitel of Pharr and Marcus W. Boysen of Brownwood; two daughters Mrs. Ida Catherine Lawrence of Ysleta, Texas, and Mrs. Stevie J. Vaughn of Brownwood. Also, twelve grand-children.
She was born Mette Catherina Botilla Baagoe June 12, 1865 in the small farming community of Blaakrog, in the Parish of Varnaes, county of Aabenraa-Sonderburg, Denmark to Johann Christian Baagoe and Catherina Margaretha Anderson. She was Christened July 16, 1865 in the historic Varnaes Lutheran Church, a church founded in 1150 AD. On May 3, 1972, at age 6, Mrs Boysen emigrated with her family through the Balinstadt Emigration Center in Hamburg, Germany on the SS Hansa, arriving at Castle Gardens Immigration Center in Battery Park New York May 9, 1872. She was confirmed on May 12 1878 at age 12 at Our Savior's Danish Lutheran Church in Brooklyn.
The family changed their name to Thompson shortly after arriving and lived and worked in the Brooklyn Danish Red Hook area for 6 years. They immigrated to Brown County through Galveston in the summer 1878.
On October 19, 1888 at age 23 Mrs Boysen married Boy Stephanus Boysen at St Johns Episcopal Church on Main Street and she resided in Brownwood for the rest of her life. Uniquely, the two met in Brown county when Mr Boysen was shopping for livestock for his butcher shop, but in the early 1870's both lived only 23 miles apart but were unknown to each other when Mr Boysen apprenticed in a butcher shop in Flensburg, Germany, just across the new border created with Denmark's 1864 defeat in the Second Schleswig War. To this union were born six sons and two daughters. She was a member of the Danish Lutheran church.
Funeral services are to be held at 5 o'clock this afternoon from the Austin-Morris Funeral Chapel with Rev. C.P. Owen officiating. Interment will be made in the Greenleaf Cemetery with Austin-Morris Funeral Home in charge.
Pallbearers will be Jno. T. Yantis Brooke Ramey, U.R. Groom, Clyde McIntosh, Earl Batton and Dean Rippetoe.
Survivors are her husband of nearly 50 years, Boy Stephanus Boysen; six sons, J. Jesse Boysen of Levelland, B. Maurice of Houston; Karl C. of Edinburg, S. Ferdinand of Fort Worth, A Eitel of Pharr and Marcus W. Boysen of Brownwood; two daughters Mrs. Ida Catherine Lawrence of Ysleta, Texas, and Mrs. Stevie J. Vaughn of Brownwood. Also, twelve grand-children.
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