Waverly Democrat/1927/Mrs. J. List

Mrs. J. List.

Mrs. J. List passed away at her home in this city on, Friday, October 14, 1927, after an illness of several weeks. She had submitted to an operation at Mercy Hospital, and in spite of her advanced age she had made sufficient recovery so that she was able to return to her home and had been sitting up for a short time each day, when suddenly she took a turn for the worse, and her death resulted within a few days thereafter. Had she lived until yesterday, October 19, she would have reached her eighty-fifth year. Wilhelmine Christine Hahnenkratt, daughter of Johann Conrad and Christine Schneider Hahnenkratt, was born in Enzingen, Wurtemberg, on October 19, 1842. Four months prior to her birth her father met death in an accident. Her mother lived forty-five years thereafter and reared the family of five children. In the spring of 1854, at the age of eleven years she came to America. The voyage was, of course, made in a sailing vessel, and the passage required seventy days. Upon her arrival here she was taken seriously ill, and for a year and a half she was separated from her family. In the year 1859 the Rev. J. A. List organized a Lutheran congregation in Des Moines, and the deceased, then a young woman of about seventeen years attended the first class for confirmation instructions and was confirmed on April 15, 1860. On October 13 of the following year, she became the wife of the Rev. Mr. List. With her husband, who served various congregations, she lived in Des Moines, Iowa; in Madison and Boscobel, Wisconsin; St. Sebald, Iowa; Mendota, Wilford, Derinda Center, Illinois; Wilton, Iowa, and Preston, Minnesota. Rev. List retired from the ministry thirty years ago and came to live in Waverly. Rev. and Mrs. List were the parents of nine children, four of whom preceded the parents in death. The five living children are Paulus List of Chicago; Mrs. F. Duerschner of New Baltimore, Michigan; Mrs. Hannah Nanim of Minneapolis; the Misses Marie and Emma List, living at home. There are also fourteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. Mrs. List was a sincere and devout Christian woman, and she will be mourned, not only by member of her own family, but by a wide circle of friends, by whom her memory will be lovingly cherished. Funeral services were held on Sunday afternoon, October 16. The service at the house was followed by services at the St. Paul's Lutheran church, of which the deceased was a regular and faithful attendant. Interment was made in the family plot in St. Paul's Lutheran cemetery beside her husband who died several years ago. Rev. E. H. Rausch, pastor of the church, officiated.