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Catherine Alvina <I>Schwein</I> Schwab

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Catherine Alvina Schwein Schwab

Birth
Browntown, Crawford County, Indiana, USA
Death
6 Sep 1959 (aged 80)
Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Hooper, Dodge County, Nebraska, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 6, Lot 412, Grave 4
Memorial ID
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The Hooper Sentinel
September 10, 1959
Mrs. Harry Schwab Succumbs to Long Illness
Death came on Sunday evening to claim Mrs. Harry Schwab, 80, after a long illness. She had been receiving care in a Fremont Hospital. The funeral services will be held on Thursday at 2 p.m. at the West Redeemer Lutheran Church. The Rev. G. Van Boening will officiate. Interment will be in the Hooper Cemetery. Music for the service was by Mrs. Victor Thomsen and Mrs. Walter Pfeiffer accompanied by Mrs. J. B Scheisler. Pallbearers were James Schwab, Harry Wagner, Walter Pfeiffer, Erwin Schrein, Arnold Schrein and Harold Burcher
Katherine Alvina, daughter of George and Anna Schwein was born Feb. 25, 1879 at Brownstown, Ind., and spent her early childhood there. She moved to Scribner in 1883, and was educated in the Parochial school thru the Sixth Grade. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith, and devoted much time to the work of the church, as long as her health permitted. She was a member of the Redeemer Lutheran Church, and a longtime member of the Aid.
She married Harry J. Schwab on Febr. 4, 1904, in the Lutheran Church, at Scribner, and they established their first home near Humphrey, Nebr., where they lived for two years. They then moved to Ft. Collins, Colo., and lived on a sugar beet farm. In June, 1910 they moved to a farm northeast of Hooper where they lived until they retired and moved to Hooper in March 1948. They were parents of seven children, Verna, who died at the age 4 in Ft. Collins, Colo,; Esther (Mrs. Howard Row) of Hooper; Harry Jr., at home; Anita (Mrs. Eugene Artrip) of Seabrook, Md.; Mildred (Mrs. Tom Bates) of Washington, D. C.; Virgil, who died in the fight for New Guinea; and Don of Hooper; nine grandchildren and one great grandchild. Her husband also survives, together with a sister, Mrs. John Borcher of Sidney; and a brother, the Rev. Charles F. Schrein of Wichita, Kansas. Mrs. Schrein had seven brothers, six of who, with one sister, preceded her in death. Three of her brothers were Lutheran ministers.
The Hooper Sentinel
September 10, 1959
Mrs. Harry Schwab Succumbs to Long Illness
Death came on Sunday evening to claim Mrs. Harry Schwab, 80, after a long illness. She had been receiving care in a Fremont Hospital. The funeral services will be held on Thursday at 2 p.m. at the West Redeemer Lutheran Church. The Rev. G. Van Boening will officiate. Interment will be in the Hooper Cemetery. Music for the service was by Mrs. Victor Thomsen and Mrs. Walter Pfeiffer accompanied by Mrs. J. B Scheisler. Pallbearers were James Schwab, Harry Wagner, Walter Pfeiffer, Erwin Schrein, Arnold Schrein and Harold Burcher
Katherine Alvina, daughter of George and Anna Schwein was born Feb. 25, 1879 at Brownstown, Ind., and spent her early childhood there. She moved to Scribner in 1883, and was educated in the Parochial school thru the Sixth Grade. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith, and devoted much time to the work of the church, as long as her health permitted. She was a member of the Redeemer Lutheran Church, and a longtime member of the Aid.
She married Harry J. Schwab on Febr. 4, 1904, in the Lutheran Church, at Scribner, and they established their first home near Humphrey, Nebr., where they lived for two years. They then moved to Ft. Collins, Colo., and lived on a sugar beet farm. In June, 1910 they moved to a farm northeast of Hooper where they lived until they retired and moved to Hooper in March 1948. They were parents of seven children, Verna, who died at the age 4 in Ft. Collins, Colo,; Esther (Mrs. Howard Row) of Hooper; Harry Jr., at home; Anita (Mrs. Eugene Artrip) of Seabrook, Md.; Mildred (Mrs. Tom Bates) of Washington, D. C.; Virgil, who died in the fight for New Guinea; and Don of Hooper; nine grandchildren and one great grandchild. Her husband also survives, together with a sister, Mrs. John Borcher of Sidney; and a brother, the Rev. Charles F. Schrein of Wichita, Kansas. Mrs. Schrein had seven brothers, six of who, with one sister, preceded her in death. Three of her brothers were Lutheran ministers.


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