Ida Loken of Blanchardville to celebrate 92nd birthday
Ida Loken, Blanchardville's oldest woman resident, will observe her 92nd birthday on Wednesday Sept 11 with family visits and gifts. Her sister Hulda Pelherson 90 will attend from Sioux City Iowa, as will several brothers and relatives. Loken has long aided others as a nurse and community member, and recalls a life of service since birth on Sept 11 1876.
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Helen E. Zimmerli
Ida Loken
Blanchardville
Sioux City
Oscar Hanson
New Glarus
Elmer
Ben
Greg Hendrickson
Ida Hanson
Blanchard
Lafayette County
Notable Wisconsin Matriarch Builds Farm Through Service
Ida Loken rose from washing boards in a school laundry to managing a Madison boarding house and supporting a family farm. She saved enough to buy seed, endured her husband Henry’s death, and stayed active in the American Legion Auxiliary Trinity Lutheran Church and local garden clubs while hosting visitors, canning produce, and valuing hard work over sweets.
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Ida
Janesville
School For the
Madison
Henry
Bloodmobile
Rev Schuster Named Treasurer of Madison Diocese Clergy
Rev Wilfred Schuster, former priest at Brodhead and Albany, is named treasurer of the Priests Senate of the Madison Diocese. He serves as pastor of St Maria Goretti on Madison's southwest side. The Senate schedules five clergy days Oct 17 Nov 21 Feb 12 Mar 27 Apr 23 with sessions open to nuns lay Catholics and non Catholic clergy. Schuster was assigned to St Maria Goretti in 1959 after seven years at St James Madison and postings at St Patrick Albany and St Rose Brodhead.
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Wilfred Schuster
Brodhead
Albany
Madison
St. Maria Goretti
Senate
Schuster
St. James
St. Patrick’s of Albany
St. Rose, Brodhead
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Glarus
5Th Ave
First St
Roberts
Millard Tschudy
Vin
Harry Hanson
William
Hanson
Angus Bulls
Dean George
Evansville
Scotties
Monroe
Rev. Schuster
Adtaker
Alpine Garage
New Glarus, Wisconsin
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