Bio for STERN, Albertina (SUKOW) (b.1858 d.1929), Mower Co., MN

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ALBERTINA (SUKOW) STERN



 The matriarch of the Stern family is Albertina (Sukow) Stern.  She was 

born on April 26, 1858 in Labes, Kreis (county) Regenwald, District of 

Koslin, Pommern, Prussia. Labes was located in the Pommern Province close 

to the Baltic Sea and in the area of Stettin.  Her parents were August 

Karl and Carolina (Mundt) Sukow.  She had one brother, August Sukow and 

two sisters, Augusta (Sukow) Strangman, and Bertha (Sukow) Neubauer, who 

also immigrated to the United States from Germany and lived in Mower 

Count, Minnesota. (little is currently known about their father August 

Karl  Sukow ).  Albertina's mother, Carolina, immigrated to the United 

States, and lived in Dexter Township, with her daughters.  According to 

Lydia Stern Tolstead, Caroline was a frequent visitor in the Stern home.  

Lydia described Carolina as always wearing a long sleeved gray woolen 

dress and spending a lot of time sitting in the rocking chair rocking in 

her parent's home.  Caroline is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in Dexter 

Township.



On October 19, 1877 Albertina (aged 19) married Ferdinand Stern in Wurow, 

Germany. Their first four children were born in Germany including; 

    Amelia b. July 9, 1879

    Herman b. September 11, 1880

    Bertha b. January 4, 1883

    Albert b. 1885

  In 1885 they immigrated to the United States arriving on April 10th, 

and reaching Austin on April 29th.  Oral family history has them joining 

other family members who had already settled in the Dexter Township area 

of Mower County in south central Minnesota.  In 1891 they purchased their 

family farm in Dexter Township. Their youngest five children born in 

Minnesota included; 

    Emma b. January 8, 1887

    Elsie b. July 8, 1890

      Arthur b. December 10, 1892

      Ervin b. December 17, 1894

      Lydia b. February 16, 1897

           

 Albertina was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and her 

husband was a founding member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, a German 

speaking congregation, located near their farm home.  This church was the 

location of family worship, baptisms, confirmations, and marriages.  

Their children including my grandmother, Lydia, attended a Lutheran 

parochial school adjacent to the church.

 In 1919 Ferdinand and Albertina retired from farming and moved into 

Austin into their house at 307 Garfield Street.  They celebrated their   

50th wedding anniversary in 1927. 

 Albertina died at the age of 70 on  March 16, 1929 from heart failure 

and had been in failing health for the last fifteen years of her life.  

 Albertina is buried along with her husband Ferdinand and other Stern 

extended family in the Dexter Township Cemetery  in Mower County. 





           Mrs. F.G. Stern Obituary from  Austin Daily Herald



 Mrs. F.G. Stern passed away at her home 307 Garfield Street at 10:25 

Saturday evening, March 16th at the age of 70 years 10 months and 16 

days.  Although she has been in failing health for the past 15 years, the 

end came very suddenly and she passed away in less that an hour after she 

was stricken.

 Albertina Sukow was born in Labes, Germany on April 26, 1858.  She was 

married to Ferdinand Stern October 19, 1877, and they celebrated their 

golden wedding October 19, 1927. They came to America forty four years 

ago and after six years bought the farm in Dexter Township, where they 

lived 28 years. Nine years ago they purchased the home on Garfield 

Street.  Mrs. Stern leaves to mourn her death her husband, F.G. Stern, 

three sons and five daughters, Herman at Renova, Arthur of Rose Creek, 

Ervin of Dexter, Mrs. J.E. Milbrad of Bell, California, Mrs. William 

Salge, and Mrs. Arthur Christgau of Austin, Mrs. Roy Rolfson of 

Brownsdale, Mrs. Harold Tolstead of Taopi, one brother, August Sukow Sr. 

of Dexter, one sister Mrs. Bertha Neubauer of Sherwood, North Dakota,  

and twenty grandchildren.  She will be missed not only by her family but 

her neighbors and a large circle of relatives and friends. The funeral 

was held Thursday March 21st with interment at Trinity Lutheran Cemetery 

in Maple City, the Rev. R.F. Schroeder officiating.

  Source Mower County HS Scrapbook 88-6-91 Box 16 pg 22  Austin Daily 

Herald 3/23/1929

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