Wilhelmine Tessman

Funeral services are to be at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Ohde funeral home here for Mrs. Wilhelmine Tessman, 95, formerly of Manning, who died about noon Tuesday, April 23, 1946, at the hospital in Atlantic. The Rev Mr. Baker, pastor of the Evangelical Church at Ross, will officiate. Burial will be in the Manning Cemetery and pallbearers will be William Schrum, Jay Bingham, C.W. Kinney, Henry Arp, Otto Hinz, and L.M. Knudson.

Mrs. Tessman was born Wilhelmine Schultz September 25, 1850, in Hagenow (Haugnow in the original obit), Germany. She married Frederick Tessman in Hagenow in 1885. They came to this county and located on a farm in Audubon County, near Ross, where they lived from 1885 to 1905.

Then they moved to Audubon, coming from Audubon to Manning in 1912. Mrs. Tessman had lived in Manning until six years ago, when she went to Red Oak to live with her son, Herman, who recently moved to Atlantic.

Surviving are four children: Mrs. Paulina Buthweg and Fred Tessman, Audubon; Herman Tessman, Atlantic; and Mrs. Charles Hershman (Minnie), Manning; 15 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren.

Her husband died June 8, 1925, in Manning. A son, Otto, died in 1928, and a son, John Paul, in infancy. Mrs. Tessman was a member of the Evangelical Church.

Notes: Wilhelmine's father, Fred Schultz (born April 1825), was living with them in 1900.