OTTAWA COUNTY OHIO - DENO/SAUER family obits from the "Elmore Independent" *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Cassie Langley Brown aislingkat@aol.com August 21, 1999 *********************************************************************** DENO/SAUER family obits from the "Elmore Independent" Elmore, Ottawa Co., OH Martin Deno, born Nov. 17, 1816, in Kramke, Germany, died in August 1898, at his home on Clinton St.; aged 82 years. Funeral from the Lutheran Church, Rev. Quel, Toledo, officiating. He leaves a wife and one son. (Elmore Independent, Ottawa Co., OH) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mrs. Rosina [Rathke] Deno, Died in Toledo. . . 11-8-1906 . . . The funeral of Mrs. Rosina Deno occurred at the Lutheran Church Sunday afternoon, and interment was made in Rice (Rymers) Cemetery. Mrs. Deno died at the State Hospital Friday, Nov. 2. She had been an inmate of that institution for nearly three years. She was aged 84 years, 10 months, and 25 days. She leaves one son, John of this place and one daughter who resides at Hampburg, MN. Rev. R. Meyer conducted. (Elmore Independent, Ottawa Co., OH) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mrs. John Deno [Bertha Ottelie Juliana SAUER], wife of John Deno, died at home two miles north of Elmore on last Saturday morning, of cancer of the throat, aged 33 years. She literally starved to death, not being able to eat sufficient to sustain life. The funeral services were held Monday at the Lutheran Church, and the remains interred in the Guss [Union] Cemetery. Jan 20., 1893. Elmore Independent ------------------------------------------------------------------ Last rites were held Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. Ida Marie Deno, 66, wife of John Deno of this place, who died at 2:45, Sunday afternoon, following a sudden, critical illness that came upon her that morning, during which she lapsed into a coma and died without regaining consciousness. Services were held in Trinity Lutheran Church, conducted by her pastor Rev. A. C. Thober, and interment was in Union Cemetery here. Surviving are her husband, and three sons; Arthur, of Elmore; Edward, of Saginaw, Mich., and Theodore of Woodville; two daughters, Mrs. Freda Krieger and Mrs. Edna Magsig, both of Elmore; another daughter, Mrs. Alma Schaaf, also of Elmore, died seven years ago. There are also three step-children: Mrs. Anna Durdel of Oak Harbor, and Mrs. Martha Truman and Emil Deno, of Elmore; also one brother, Harmon Sauer, of this place, and three sisters: Mrs. Wm. Thom, Merril Mich., Mrs. Augusta Klingbeil, Elliston, and Mrs. Ferdinand Yoster, Trowbridge; also, twelve grandchildren and five step-grandchildren. Mrs. Deno was born in Germany in 1870 and came to America with her father, two sisters and a brother in 1882, settling in Elliston, where others of the family had already located. On March 15, 1894, she was married to John Deno of Elmore, by Rev. Strange, an Evangelical minister here, and has ever since lived in this vicinity. . . 4 May 1936. ------------------------------------------------------------------ John L. Deno Died Thursday Night. Dec. 21; John L. Deno, 83, retired farmer, died at his home on West Rice street about 11 oÕclock Thursday night, of complications. Funeral services were held from the home and then from Trinity Lutheran Church Sunday afternoon. Rev. A. C. Thober officiating and interment in Union Cemetery. Mr. Deno was born in Germany July 21, 1856, and at the age of 16 years came with his parents to America and settled at Elliston, Ohio. In 1886 he was married to Miss Bertha Sauer, and to this union were born six children, Anna, Emma, Emilia, Martha, Emil and William. In 1892 his first wife died and two years later he was united in marriage to Miss Edith Sauer. Six children were born to this union also, Edward, Theodore, Arthur, Frieda, Alma, and Edna. The family lived on the Deno farm north of Elmore on the Elliston road until 1919 when he with his wife and the children still at home moved to Elmore. His wife died in 1936 and most of the time since then he has lived with his daughter, Mrs. Elmer Kroeger, and family. His health began to fail last June and five weeks ago he became bedfast. He suffered his first stroke about two weeks ago and another one the Saturday before his death. Surviving are eight children: Mrs. Albert Durdel of Oak Harbor; Mrs. John Truman, Emil and Mrs.. Elmer Kroeger of Elmore; Edward of Saginaw, Mich; Theodore of Woodville, Mrs. Ben Magsig of Gibsonburg, and Arthur of Fremont; also 18 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. (Elmore Independent) _________________________________________________________ NOTE: Mrs. Bertha Sauer DENO & Mrs. Ida Sauer DENO were sisters (dau. of Wilhelm & Wilhelmina KERSTEN SAUER); shortly after Bertha's death in 1893, Ida married her husband, John, raising Bertha's children and having children of her own with Mr. DENO. __________________________________________________________