Obit for UPTAGRAFFT, Sarah Etta (Babcock) (b.1898 d.1999), Dodge Co., MN

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Sarah Etta Uptagrafft -- Hayfield

08/25/1999



WEST CONCORD -- The funeral for Sarah Etta Uptagrafft will be 2 p.m. 

Thursday at First Baptist Church in West Concord, with the Rev. David 

Breederland officiating. Burial will be in Concord Cemetery in West 

Concord.

  Mrs. Uptagrafft, 101, of Hayfield, a former West Concord-area farm 

homemaker, died Monday (Aug. 23, 1999) at Field Crest Nursing Home in 

Hayfield where she had resided since July 1994.

  Sarah Etta Babcock was born June 18, 1898, in West Concord, graduated 

from West Concord High School, and after completing normal training in 

West Concord taught in Dodge County schools for several years. On June 

18, 1919, she married Claude Uptagrafft in West Concord and they farmed 

in the West Concord and Dodge Center areas for many years. Her husband 

died May 8, 1986. She was a member of First Baptist Church in West 

Concord.

  Survivors include four daughters, Marlyss (Mrs. Sam) Thompson of 

Hayfield, Ellen Niski of Austin, Marian (Mrs. Bill) Cordines of 

Galesville, Wis., and Ann (Mrs. Don) Atnip of Paris, Texas; eight 

grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren. 

She was preceded in death by a daughter, four brothers and eight sisters.



Friends may call an hour before the service Thursday at the church.

Michaelson Funeral Home-West Concord Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials are suggested to a charity of the donor's choice.



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