OBITUARY: Tilda `Tillie' G. (Johnson) Weseman, 1909-1996, Mitchell Co., Iowa

[From Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, Dec. 5, 1996 (edited)]





                       Tilda `Tillie' G. Weseman

CARPENTER, IOWA--Tilda `Tillie' G. Weseman, 87, of Carpenter, died
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1996, at the Lutheran Retirement Home, Northwood.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Conner Colonial
Chapel, 99-11th St. S., Northwood, with the Rev. Kathryn E. Larson of
Deer Creek Lutheran Church in Carpenter officiating.  Burial will be in
the Bethel Lutheran Cemetery in Vinje.

Tilda "Tillie" G. Weseman was born Jan. 22, 1909, in Winnebago County,
Iowa, in rural Vinje, the daughter of Theodore and Gunda (Erickson) Johnson.

She was baptized and reaffirmed the faith of her baptism through confirmation
at the Bethel Lutheran Church in Vinje. She attended and received her
education in the rural Winnebago County School System.

She was united in marriage to Robert Weseman in Fairmont, Minn.  He preceded
her in death in 1966.

Throughout her life, she was considered by her many nieces and nephews as
a great second mother, who also raised and cared for a niece, Betty Ann
Simmons.

Survivors include two sisters, Elnora Elwood of Algona, and Edith Neuman of
Lakota; one sister-in-law, Pearl Johnson, Rochester, Minn.; as well as many
nieces and nephews; great-nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers
and three sisters.



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