The Rev. C.W. Schmidt, pastor Of Zion Lutheran Church, officiated. Hymns were sung by the Zion Lutheran Ladies Choir, with Mrs. Fred Rabe as organist. Pallbearers were Donald Bornhoft, Wilbur Gottsch, Virgil Ewoldt, Arlo Gottsch, Marvin Kuhl, and Gordon Weller. Burial was in the Hayes Township Cemetery.
Mrs. Thiedeman, the former Anna Margaretha Kruse, was born February 3, 1879, in Hayes Township, Crawford County, daughter of Otto and Metta (Rumpel) Kruse. On February 22, 1902, she married Julius Thiedeman and they farmed in Hayes Township. Mr. Thiedeman died in 1927, and his widow moved to Denison in 1940. Since 1966 she had been a resident of the Eventide Home. She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Denison.
Surviving are a daughter and son, Mrs. Velma Meehan and Orville Thiedeman, both of Westside; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Besides her husband she was preceded in death by two sons, Harold and Gilbert, two sisters and one brother.