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- [S888] Social Security Death Index 1935 - Current, (www.ancestry.com).
Name: Gertrude L. Schlenker
SSN: 503-32-5349
Last Residence: 57501 Pierre, Hughes, South Dakota, United States of America
Born: 11 Apr 1912
Died: 10 May 2004
State (Year) SSN issued: South Dakota (Before 1951)
- [S927] Obituary.
Memorial folder
Submitted by Jacque McDonnell
transcribed by Karen Seeman
GERTRUDE L. SCHLENKER
Gertrude Lillian Goehring was born April 11, 1912, in Valley Township, Hyde County, South Dakota, to Charles and Mary (Baumgart) Goehring and died May 10, 2004, at the Highmore Healthcare Center in Highmore, South Dakota, at the age of 92 years and 29 days.
She joined two sisters and later two brothers joined the family. She graduated from eighth grade in 1925. She was united in marriage to Emil Aasby on September 26, 1932, in Edgemont, South Dakota. To this union three children were born. They made their home on a farm in Loomis Township in Hyde County.
He died in April, 1952, when their home burned. She married Richard Schlenker on June 29, 1953, and they had one daughter, Lucille. They farmed in Loomis Township until 1959, when they moved into Highmore, where she continued to live following his death on July 1, 1973.
She babysat for a number of Highmore youngsters and was also a friend to every hunter, as she cleaned their pheasants and geese. She was well-known for her crocheted fancy work.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husbands; one brother, Wilbur Goehring; two sisters, Elaine Borcherding and Ruby Strohmenger; and one great- grandson, Nicholas Aasby.
(information on survivors omitted due to privacy concerns)
Interment in Highmore City Cemetery, Highmore, South Dakota
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