Louise (Lange) Schmidt
December 26, 1881 - December 19, 1978
Mrs. John A. (Louise) Schmidt, 96, died Tuesday, December 19, 1978 at the Tri-County Hospital in Lexington.
Louise was born December 26, 1881, at Plum Creek (now Lexington) Nebraska to Dietrich and Wilhelmine (Tonne) Lange. She was the third child born, and the first to be born in Nebraska of nine siblings; Christian (Chris), Maria (Mary), Louise, Elizabeth (Lizzie), Ernest (E. A.) Friedrich (Fred), Wilhelm (Bill), Henrietta (Hattie), and Lewis (Louie).
On March 3, 1905 Louise Lange was united in marriage to Johann Adolph Schmidt at the First Lutheran Church at Buffalo, Nebraska. To this union seven children were born; Elizabeth (Zea), Eleonore (Ella), Wilhelm (Bill), Louis (Louie), Esther, Edna, and Alice.
They resided in the area of the Buffalo community for many years and farmed 320 acres on the NE/4 Section 33 - Township 12 North - Range 22 West and NW/4 Section 34 -Township 12 North - Range 22 West.
Louise was a life-long resident of the Buffalo-Lexington communities.
Survivors include two sons: Bill (Hilda)Schmidt, Lexington and Louie Schmidt, Lexington; four daughters, Ella Schmidt, Lexington, Esther (Zane) Gordon, Littleton, Colorado, Edna (Alfred) Kopf, Buffalo, and Alice (Gerry) Kopf, Fulton, Illinois.; one sister Hattie (Henry) Jorgensen, Lexington; 19 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.
One daughter, Zea (Knute) Neben, and five brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.
Services were held Friday afternoon at First Lutheran Church at Buffalo, Nebraska with Pastor Greg Volzke, officiating. Interment was in the Buffalo First Lutheran Cemetery.
Louise (Lange) Schmidt
December 26, 1881 - December 19, 1978
Mrs. John A. (Louise) Schmidt, 96, died Tuesday, December 19, 1978 at the Tri-County Hospital in Lexington.
Louise was born December 26, 1881, at Plum Creek (now Lexington) Nebraska to Dietrich and Wilhelmine (Tonne) Lange. She was the third child born, and the first to be born in Nebraska of nine siblings; Christian (Chris), Maria (Mary), Louise, Elizabeth (Lizzie), Ernest (E. A.) Friedrich (Fred), Wilhelm (Bill), Henrietta (Hattie), and Lewis (Louie).
On March 3, 1905 Louise Lange was united in marriage to Johann Adolph Schmidt at the First Lutheran Church at Buffalo, Nebraska. To this union seven children were born; Elizabeth (Zea), Eleonore (Ella), Wilhelm (Bill), Louis (Louie), Esther, Edna, and Alice.
They resided in the area of the Buffalo community for many years and farmed 320 acres on the NE/4 Section 33 - Township 12 North - Range 22 West and NW/4 Section 34 -Township 12 North - Range 22 West.
Louise was a life-long resident of the Buffalo-Lexington communities.
Survivors include two sons: Bill (Hilda)Schmidt, Lexington and Louie Schmidt, Lexington; four daughters, Ella Schmidt, Lexington, Esther (Zane) Gordon, Littleton, Colorado, Edna (Alfred) Kopf, Buffalo, and Alice (Gerry) Kopf, Fulton, Illinois.; one sister Hattie (Henry) Jorgensen, Lexington; 19 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.
One daughter, Zea (Knute) Neben, and five brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.
Services were held Friday afternoon at First Lutheran Church at Buffalo, Nebraska with Pastor Greg Volzke, officiating. Interment was in the Buffalo First Lutheran Cemetery.
Family Members
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Christian Karl Heinrich Dietrich Lange
1875–1948
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Maria Dorothea Louise Lange Schultze
1877–1962
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Elizabeth Sophia Lange
1883–1975
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Ernest August Lange
1885–1969
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Friedrich Louis "Frank" Lange
1886–1957
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Wilhelm Dietrick Lange
1889–1968
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Henrietta Sophia Lange Jorgensen
1891–1987
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Lewis Heinrich Lange
1896–1971
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Elizabeth Henriette Babette "Zea" Schmidt Neben
1907–1959
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Eleonore Wilhelmine Katharine "Ella" Schmidt
1909–1995
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Wilhelm Carl "Bill" Schmidt
1911–2006
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Louis Heinrich "Louie" Schmidt
1914–1995
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Esther Dorothea Louise Schmidt Gordon
1917–1996
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Edna Maria Schmidt Kopf
1920–2006
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Alice Lorinne Schmidt Kopf
1923 – unknown
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