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Submitted: 9/2/22 • Approved: 9/7/22 • Last Updated: 9/10/22 • R274585-G101414-S3
Anna Marie Schwebach Schmidt
Birth
8 Aug 1915
Bird Island, Renville County, Minnesota, USA
Death
16 Jan 2005 (aged 89)
Dell Rapids, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, USA
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Anna Marie Schwebach was born on August 8, 1915 at Bird Island, MN, the daughter of Philip and Catherine Schwebach. She attended country school in the Elkton and Dell Rapids area. While she was young, she worked for many families before cooking at St. Michael Hospital in Grand Forks, ND for almost two years. Anna Married John N. Schmidt on February 16, 1943 in Dell Rapids. They farmed near Dell Rapids and raised five children. After retiring in 1974, they moved into Dell Rapids. Anna worked in the lunchroom at Dell Rapids High School or five years. John passed away in 1981. She had remained in her home since that time.
Anna died on Sunday, January 16, 2005 at the Dells Area Health Center. She was 89 and was preceded in death by her parents, her son, Philip, five brothers and one sister.
She was a member of the St. Mary Catholic Church and Altar Society and was active in the Dell Rapids Senior Citizen’s Center. She filled her days with gardening, sewing, playing cards, fishing, playing board games. putting puzzles together and doing find a work books.
Those left to cherish her memory are her three sons, Charles (Karen) Schmidt of Sioux Falls, Leonard Schmidt and Raymond Schmidt, both of Dell Rapids; her daughter, Grace Schmidt of Sioux Falls, her daughter-in-law, Barbara Schmidt of Colman, her eight grandchildren, Carla, Brian, Joshua, Jill, Jennifer, Jeff, Greg, and Kevin and five great-grandchildren, Jaren, Jamieson, Jace, Jevan and Fallon; her brother, Raphael Schwebach of Dell Rapids; and her two sisters, Anastasia Siemonama of Dell Rapids and Agnes Sechser of Sioux Falls.
Contributed on 9/2/22 by dellsfig68
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