Obit for STRATE, Fredericka (LAMMERS) (d.1934), Brown Co., MN
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New Ulm Review - February 8, 1934
MRS. FREDERICKA STRATE
  "Grandma Strate", as she had come to be called by nearly everybody 
passed away at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. August Strate Tuesday 
evening at 8:30, after a long and useful life, leaving many who will mourn 
the passing of a good and faithful mother, friend and neighbor.  
Her death resulted from the ailments of old age and she had been failing 
gradually but perceptibly for the past three months and for the past month 
had been confined to her bed.  Her last expressed with will be granted for 
she had said she would like to be buried on her birthday and that will 
happen for she would have been just 89 years old Friday, Feb. 9, this week.
  Fredericka Lammers was born in Prussia, Germany , and when 12 years 
old she accompanied her parents to America and settled in Jackson Co., 
Ohio, where they lived for two years.  They then removed to Minnesota, 
settling in West Newton where they were living at the time of the Indian 
outbreak.  They fled to New Ulm for refuge ad later returned to the 
homestead which was known as the Lammers place.  In 1864 she was married 
in July to Fred Strate also of West Newton at St. Peter and lived o the 
farm Mr. Strate had homesteaded before the outbreak and which he had left 
o serve in the army.  There she and her husband lived and raised their 
family during the 50 years that saw the rapid development of the state.  
There they celebrated their golden wedding day in July 1914, and Mr. 
Strate lived another year, dying in October, 1915.
  Mrs. Strate then removed from the farm to New Ulm where she has since 
lived with her children of whom there were 8 living at the time of their 
father's death.  Three children died in infancy, two of them in the 
diphtheria epidemic that took so many of the children 50 years ago. 
Two sons Louis and August died in recent years, Louis in 1928, and August 
December 15th, last  the surviving children are Mrs. Rudolph Alwin, New 
Ulm, Mrs. Louis Arhart, West Newton, Mrs. Herman Juni, Milford, Fred, 
Arlee, Sask., Can., Wm. E., Summit Ave., New Ulm, and Wilbur, New Ulm.  
There are 43 grandchildren and 13 great grand children, but there ware 
no survivors of Mrs. Strate's, own family, as she was the last of the 
Lammers.  Mrs. Strate was a memeber of the Women's Foreign Missionary 
Society of the Methodist church and a member of the Methodist church 
and a member also of the Pioneers of New Ulm.