Married first, 1928 Broken Bow, NE, S Albert Williams

Married second, 1950s, Lee Baumann
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LETA BAUMANN, 99

Leta Louise (Halbeisen) Baumann, 99, of Jupiter, Fla., died Nov. 21, 2005.
There will be a gathering of family and friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Livingston-Sondermann Funeral Home, with a prayer and remembrance service at 6. Burial will be Dec. 10 in Litchfield, where her ashes will be laid to rest with other relatives.
She was preceded in death by her first husband S Albert Williams, and her second husband, Lee Baumann, and a son, Philip Franklin Williams.
Survivors of the immediate family include a son and daughter-in-law, Alan L. and Mary Ann Williams of Jupiter, Fla.
Additional survivors include many Halbeisen family and Hirt family descendants living in Nebraska, Ohio and throughout the country.
She will be remembered at the Hirt Family Reunion in Fremont, Ohio, in July 2006.
She was the youngest of 14 children born to Charles and Elizabeth (Hirt) Halbeisen at Litchfield.
Leta graduated from Litchfield High School in 1924, and following her marriage in 1928 to S. Albert Williams in Broken Bow, moved to Colorado where she lived for 20 years. From there she moved first to Grants Pass and Eugene, Ore., and then to Walnut Creek, Calif. Most recently she relocated to Florida with her son and daughter-in-law.
She had many occupations over the years: A schoolteacher in a one-room school, home daycare, retail sales, a high school cook and a homemaker. She was a life member of the Rossmoor Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary of Walnut Creek, Calif., the Tice Valley Methodist Church and the Eugene Methodist Church. She loved baseball, was an avid Oakland A's fan, she enjoyed knitting, crocheting and crafts and traveling to visit family and friends.
Leta's warm and outgoing personality made her a major catalyst who bridged the generations of the family.