HENRIETTA E. OAS

(1868 • 1951)

MRS. JOHN O. OAS, mother of the late Lt. Otto Oas, Manitowoc, county's first World War I casualty, and after whom the Manitowoc post No. 659, Veterans of Foreign Wars, was named, died Friday afternoon following a brief illness.

Mrs. Oas, who was 82, had made her home in Manitowoc with a daughter, Mrs. Harry Richgels, 602 Marshall street, for the past year.

Funeral services are to be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the St. Paul Lutheran church, St. Clair and North 10th street, Manitowoc, with the Rev. Myron Swanson officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.

Born Elizabeth Eggen in Racine in 1868, the deceased was married to John Oas in Lyle, Minn. in 1892. The couple came to Manitowoc in 1914, remaining until 1930 when they moved to Alban in Portage county. Mr. Oas died there in 1936. Following her husband's death Mrs. Oas lived in Milwaukee and later in Mellen, Wis., with a daughter, Mrs. Carl Ruger, returning to Manitowoc, about a year ago. During her residence in Manitowoc Mrs. Oas was an active member of women's societies of the St. Paul Lutheran congregation.

Surviving, in addition to the two daughters, Mrs. Richgels and Mrs. Ruger, mentioned above, are four sons, Herbert, Rossow, Phillip and Orin of Milwaukee; one brother, Gustav Eggen of Tucson, Ariz.; three sisters, Mrs. Rena Wilson of Minneapolis, Mrs. Lora Waldeland of Northfield, Minn., and Mrs. E. J. Larson of Virginia, Minn.; seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Urbanek and Schlie funeral home in Manitowoc from Sunday noon until 10 a.m. Monday when the body will be removed to the St. Paul church to lie in state until time of the afternoon services.

Manitowoc Herald Times, Wis., June 23, 1951 P. 2

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• Henrietta E. Oas
• died 06-22-1951
• buried 06-25-1951
• age 82 years
• buried on John Oas lot

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