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Subject: [IADICKIN] Minnie Weinberg Obituary
Date: 3 Jul 2001 07:31:19 -0600

Spirit Lake Beacon, April 11, 1940

Mrs. Weinberg Passed Away Saturday Morn

HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF DICKINSON COUNTY FOR 45 YEARS

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Immanuel Lutheran church for Mrs. Minnie Weinberg who died Saturday morning, April 6, at her home. Rev. M.J. Ansorge was in charge of the services. Burial was made at Lakeview cemetery beside her husband. Pall bearers were: Louis Beeker, Hans Froendt, Fritz Jacobs, Herman Bruhn, and Ed Ehlers*. (Was difficult to read.)

Mrs. Minnie Weinberg, nee Pape, was born in Magdeberg (maybe Mecklenberg),Schwerin, Germany, on January 26, 1859. She was baptized into the Lutheran faith at an early age and later in her youth repeated her baptismal vows in the rite of confirmation.
Having preceded his beloved to America some time before, Heinrich Weinberg sent for our now departed sister in Christ in the year 1885 and in that same year they were joined in holy wedlock in Butler county, Iowa. This union was blessed with the birth of six sons and three daughters.
In 1895 the family moved to Dickinson county residing on a farm northeast of Spirit Lake. In 1914 Mr. and Mrs. Weinberg retired and moved to Spirit Lake where both lived until their respective deaths.
Mrs. Weinberg had enjoyed fairly good health until a week ago last Wednesday, March 27, when an injury aggravated an old complaint. Though she rested quietly last Friday afternoon, the evening brought with it a severe attack which ended in her death at 7 a.m. on last Saturday morning after a life of 81 years, 2 months and 11 days.
While many will remember her as a lover of her plants and garden, we shall particularly remember her as a lover of Jesus, her Savior. It was a rare Sunday which did not find her in her accustomed pew. Regular she was in her attendance of the Lord's Supper. It was not unusual to drop in on her at home and find her poring over her German Bible and devotional books. Those who enlisted her aid for the work of the church always found her enthusiastic in doing all that she possibly could. In word and deed, she confessed Christ as her Savior.
She looked forward during her illness to the private ministrations of her pastor and on Thursday last requested and received Holy Communion, confessing in unmistakable terms her utter, unworthiness before God, and receiving through faith in Christ the blessed assurance of the forgiveness of sins. That her soul now rests from her labors with her Lord on High, of that we are sure, for "whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life."
Preceded in death by her husband in 1919, and by one son, Albert, who died at the age of 28, and one daughter, Lillian, who died in her infancy, she leaves to mourn her departure: five sons, Lewie of Slave Lake, Canada, William of Hines, Minn., Henry of Lake Park, and Carl and August of Spirit Lake, two daughters, Mrs. Porter McCann of Lake Park, and one half-sister, Mrs. R.G. Fennermann; many more distant relatives and friends and acquaintances.
Relatives here to attend the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Claude Widdifield of Park Rapids, Minn., Will Weinberg of Hines, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weinberg of Clarksville, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Widdifield, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Krause, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Krause, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Moses and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Strube all of Jackson, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Burke of Lakefield Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Dick Shoen of Montgomery, and Mrs. Maxine Yeoman of Estherville.

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