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Lydia Elizabeth Howe, 94, of Crosby, N.D., died Friday, Dec. 3, 1999, at Trinity Medical Center in Minot, N.D.
Services were Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1999, at the Ambrose Lutheran Church in Ambrose, N.D. Burial was in the Daneville Lutheran Cemetery in Westby, Mont.
Lydia Elizabeth (Christensen) Howe was born Oct. 7, 1905, to Louis and Gertha (Anderson) Christensen in Herman. She was baptized on Oct. 22, 1905 at St. Johannes Danish ELC (Argo) Church) in Burt County. She was the eighth child out of 15 born to the Christensen family which included four sets of twins. The family moved to North Dakota when she was two-years-old. She was confirmed at the rural Westby Daneville Church in Montana.
On Aug. 3, 1923, she married John Anderson. The couple had five daughters. The marriage was dissolved in 1943. She was then employed as a cook in private homes, state parks and nursing homes. Her children said, “No one can beat mom’s cooking.” While at her home in Choteau, Mont., she married Frank Howe.
In 1970, her brother, Elif Christensen, came to live with her, and in 1977 she sold her home and they moved to Velva, N.D., The brother and sister then moved onto the farmstead of her daughter and son-in-law, Charles and June Bublitz. After making a home in Crosby, N.D., the two entered the Crosby Good Samaritan Center in Aug. of 1998. Her brother preceded her in death on Nov. 24, 1999.
She was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church of Westby, Mont. and the Divide County Senior Citizens. Her hobby was quilt-making.
She is survived by five daughters Dorothy Fitzpatrick of Cut Bank, Mont., Betty Lindell of Westby, Mont., Myrtle LaFond of Elkhart, Kan., Joan Allgor of Citrus Heights, Calif., and June Bublitz of Ambrose, N.D.; 19 grandchildren; 41 great-grandchildren; and several great-great-grandchildren; one sister, Ethel Swartz of Plentywood, Mont.; One brother Clarence Christensen of Crosby, N.D.; and several nieces and nephews.
Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clipping on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.
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