Marie (Spreuer) Baumgarten

Marie Baumgarten entered a new life with her Lord and Savior and rejoined the
love of her life on Friday December 9, 2011, at Bethel Home in Oshkosh after
a long struggle with Alzheimer's Disease. Marie's family were Volga Germans
who emigrated to the New World in 1913. After the family had short stays in
Winnipeg and Idaho, Marie Spreuer was born in Brush, Colorado, on February
13, 1919, and her family moved to Oshkosh in 1923. Marie began Kindergarten
at Roosevelt Elementary School in the year that school first opened. She
graduated from Oshkosh High School in 1937 and married her beloved husband
Rev. Edmund Baumgarten in October, 1940, in Oshkosh. Marie glorified and
served God by dedicating her life to joyously serving her church, her family
and her community.
Marie is survived by her sons Paul (Dee) Baumgarten of Papillion, NE, Rev.
Thomas (Paula Jean) Baumgarten of Minoqua, WI, Rev. Jonathan (Marian)
Baumgarten of River Forest, IL, and Edward Baumgarten of Oshkosh, six
grandchildren, three great grandchildren, a brother-in-law Melvin Baumgarten
of Loganville, and special friends Angie and Hunter Berholtz. She was
preceded in death by her husband Edmund, her parents George and Anna Spreuer,
her brother Jacob Spreuer and two sisters Elizabeth Alwin and Elsie
Lautenschlager, her parents-in-law, and several brothers-and sisters-in-law.
Marie's new life will be celebrated on Wednesday December 14 at Zion Lutheran
Church, 400 North Sawyer St., in Oshkosh with a visitation from 9 am until
the time of her funeral service at 10 am. The family will then escort Marie
to St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery in Loganville, WI, where there will be a
brief graveside prayer service at 2 pm.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are encouraged to Bethel Foundation,
225 North Eagle St., Oshkosh, WI 54902, in gratitude for the loving care she
received from the staff there for more than six and a half years. Please visit
www.seefeldfuneral.com to send online condolences to the family.
Seefeld Funeral and
Cremation Services
(920) 236-7750