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Submitted: 3/8/09 • Approved: 3/8/09 • Last Updated: 8/12/15 • R2992-G0-S3
1920 SD Census:
Alex HUBNER age 31
Rosa A HUBNER age 30
Lois S HUBNER age 2 7/12
April 3, 1930, South Dakota, Bon Homme County, Avon, Census:
Alex HUBNER age 42 born in SD in 1888, married at age 28 born in SD to Russians
Rosa HUBNER age 40 born in SD married at age 27 born in IL to Germans
Lois HUBNER age 12 born in SD
Calvin HUBNER age 8 born in SD
Russell HUBNER age 6 born in SD
Funeral services were held Saturday at 1:45 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Avon for Alex Hubner, who died at Sacred Heart Hospital at Yankton on November 2, 1961, after an illness of several weeks. Reverend Peter Wiens officiated, with the Crosby Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Casket bearers were Burnell Hubner, Clifton Hubner, Nathan Buchholz, Donald Berndt, Sidney Hebner, and Harry Buchholz. Interment was in the Avon Baptist Cemetery.
Alex Hubner, son of Andrew and Anna Hubner, was born on March 13, 1888, at Tyndall. On February 14, 1917, he was united in marriage to Rose Schmidt. The couple started their life together on the Henry Giedd farm. Later they moved to the farm purchased from Walter Bangert.
Surviving are his children, Lois, Mrs. Julius Schaefer, Lead, SD; Calvin and Russell of Avon, and Cora, Mrs. Thorwald Raysby, of Avon, one sister, Christina, Mrs. Dave Engel of Lake Andes; one brother, Emanuel of Avon, one half-sister, Laura, Mrs. Roy Witzel, one half-brother, Adolph, of Pierre, and eight grandchildren.
His wife, one daughter, two sisters, one brother, and two half-sisters preceded him in death.
Mrs. Alec Hubner
Rosa Schmidt, the daughter of William and Wilhelmina Schmidt, was born at Edelstein, Illinois, on December 2, 1889, and passed on to her reward April 12, 1953, after an illness of 19 years, at the age of 63 years, four months and 10 days. In March, 1902, she came with her parents, to South Dakota, where they settled on a farm near Avon, later moving into the city in March, 1915, where she lived until uniting in marriage with Alec Hubner, February 14, 1917.
The Lord blessed this union with five children: Three daughters, Lois, Cora (Mrs. Thorwald Raysby), Rhoda Rose, who passed away at birth; two sons: Calvin and Russell. All the children still reside in Avon.
Our sister accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal Savior and was baptized November 24, 1906, by the Rev. Olthoff, and received into the fellowship of the First Baptist Church, where she has been a member since that day.
She leaves to mourn her passing: her husband, Alec Hubner; four children, Lois, Cora, Calvin, and Russell; three grandchildren: Robert, Audrey, and Karl; many other relatives, friends, her pastor and church.
The Apostle Paul, under divine inspiration, spoke these words of comfort and triumph to the early Christians and they still thrill our souls when we think of death: "Death is swallowed up in victory, O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." It is a comfort for man to know that death holds no horror for the Sint of God. It's the gate by which we enter a life that will never end. May we be comforted and filled with rejoicing over our "Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Contributed on 3/8/09 by hubner1
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