CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF CHRISTINA LANGE

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THE CEDAR COUNTY NEWS -  FEBRUARY 1934

 
FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR MRS. C. LANGE

Services conducted from Bow Valley Church Monday Morning

Funeral services were held Monday, morning at 10 o’clock at St. Peter 
and Paul church in Bow Valley for Mrs. Christina Lange, who passed 
away Friday morning Feburary 16, 1934, at the home of her son Ed, who 
lives on the old homestead near Fordyce.  Rev. Anthony Birnbach 
conducted the services, and interment was in the Bow Valley Cemetery.

Christina Foecke was born in Breese, Ill., on Aug. 29, 1860.  She was 
the daughter of  Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Foecke.  When she was 14 years 
of age, the family moved to Cedar county and homesteaded near Fordyce.  
In 1877 she became the wife of Henry Lange, the ceremony being 
performed at Bow Valley.  On May 3, 1913, Mr. Lange passed away and 
since that time, Mrs. Lange has been making her home with her son Ed.  
Mrs. Lange had been in ailing health for about a year, her death 
coming early Friday morning was caused by dropsy.

Surviving her are her nine children, Henry G. Lange of Hartington; 
William C., Joseph and Lewis Lange of Crofton; Frank, John G., August 
and Edward Lange and Mrs. Stephen Keiser of near Fordyce.  She also 
leaves two sisters, Mrs. Mary Meyers of Milwaukee, Wis., and Annie of 
Dennison, Tex., and one brother Frank Foecke of Dennison.  Forty-eight 
grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren also survive her.

Pallbearers at the funeral were six grandsonS, Marlen, Reinald and 
Arthur Lange, Henry and John Lattman,Jr., and Edward Keiser.