Anna Dorothea HINKELDEY

The Aurelia Sentinel, 6/13/1940

Pioneer Hanover Lady Passed Away Saturday

Funeral Services for Mrs. Fred Vast Held Tuesday.

Funeral services for Mrs. Fred Vast, a pioneer resident of Hanover

who passed away at her home in Hanover Saturday morning followng

a paralytic stroke, were held Tuesday afternoon, 1:30 from the home and2 o'clock from St. John's Lutheran church of Hanover. Rev. O. Bahr hadcharge of the English and Rev. H. Wehking of Sioux City had charge ofthe German service, Burial was made in the church cemeery.

Anna Dorothea Hinkeldey, daugher of Friedrich Hinkeldey and his wife, Marie Margaret, nee Sump, was born at Heidhusen, Hanover, Germany,

October 21,1864, and died at her country home near Hanover June 8, 1940, at the age of 75 years, 7 months and 7 days.

She was baptized in the Lutheran faith by her pastor at an early age. Together with her parents she left Germany in 1872 at the age of eight to make their home in America.

The Hinkeldey family located at first near Madison, in Cook county, Illinois. Having received one year of.schooling in Germany, she then continued her schooling at Madison, the Lutheran parochial school

at that place.

After three years in Illinois, her parents moved to Creighton, Nebraska. But there they remained only one year because a plague of grasshoppers destroyed their crops. Then they moved to Page county, Iowa and therethe deceased finished her schooling in Immanuel Lutheran parochial school. On May 2, 1879, she vas confirmed by Pastor C. F. W. Brandt. In the year 1883, the Hinkeldey family moved yet another time and located onwhat is now known as the Herman Hinkeldey homestead four miles south and one and one half miles west of Alta.

On March 3, 1892, the departed was married to Fred Vast. Pastor Henry Wehking performed the ceremony. The young wedded couple made their homefor two years on what is now known as the Henry Hustedt homestead. Thenthey purchased the homestead on which she spent the last 46 years herlife.

Five children were born to this union, Fred and Mary, twins, and John,

Ida and Henry. Of these five children , Mary and Henry preceded the mother in death. Henry passed away May 10, 1929, after a long illness, andMary died September 28, 1932. A granddaughter born to Mary also died when only a few days of age. The death of her two children was a severeblow to Mrs. Vast, from which she never fully recovered. Then about a year and a half ago she suffered a fall which seriously injured her andkept her bed-fast for months. At last she was able again to sit up andto get around with the help of her family, but her strength never returned. But even in her own pitiful condition she was always far more concerned with the members of her family than with herself. Mrs. Vast suffered a paralytic stroke last Thursday morning which rendered her left side helpless. However, she

kept her faculties of mind and was conscious to the very last. On the

first day she was even able to speak. She received the Lord's supper Thursday afternoon and able to pray yet on Friday with her pastor. Saturday morning at 5 o'clock she passed away.

She leaves to mourn her death her husband, her sons, Fred and John,

and daughter Ida; Also her brother, H. J, Hinkeldey, and two sisters, Mrs. Diedtrich Hohnsbruch and Mrs. Fred Stueve.

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