Anna Caspers
November 4, 1940 ~ March 31, 2016
Anna Elizabeth Caspers, 75, of Lisbon, died on Thursday, March 31, 2016, at Mechanicsville Specialty Care. Celebration of Life Service: 10:30 a.m. on Monday, April 4, 2016, at the Lisbon United Methodist Church, by Pastor Tom Mattson. Visitation: 2-5 p.m. on Sunday at the church. Inurnment: Lisbon Cemetery. Arrangements are with Stewart Baxter Funeral & Memorial Services, Mount Vernon.
Survivors include her husband, Duane; children, Bruce (Mandy) Caspers of Mustang, Oklahoma, Troy (Kay) Caspers, Andrew (Julie) Caspers, and Heather (Butch) Myers, all of Lisbon; sister, Joan (Virgil) Henry of Ridgeway; sisters-in-law, Joleen Friederich and Ruth Friederich; grandchildren, Casey (Sara) Caspers, Sadie (Josh) Jones, Zach Caspers, Christopher (Jenny) Caspers, Hunter Caspers, Bailey Caspers, Alexandra (Ethan) Kamerling, Adeline Caspers, Patrick (Anna) Myers, and Hannah Myers; and ten great grandchildren with two more on the way.
Anna was born November 4, 1940, in Elgin, Iowa, the daughter of Ernest and Florence (Baumgartner) Friederich, in the same house where her mother was born. She attended Cherry Valley Country School through the 6th grade and then Elgin Public Schools through the 11th grade. She was a member of the first class to graduate from the new consolidated Valley (Clermont-Elgin) in 1958.
On April 19, 1959, she married Duane Caspers in Elgin. Anna worked in food service for 25 years, including the Solon Nursing Home, Gary's Foods, and Rockwell Collins. She was active in the Lisbon community serving as a den mother, secretary of the Lisbon Boosters, and various roles with the Lisbon United Methodist Church.
Anna will be remembered for her many baked goods, canning and pickling, and her antique balloon machine. She and Duane enjoyed going to engine shows for many years and also checking out garage sales. Her family will remember her loving and caring ways, especially her grandkids.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Harold, Leo, and Russ; sister, Ernestine Butikofer; sister-in-law, Geri Friederich; brother-in-law, Lewis Butikofer, and granddaughter, Bethany Caspers.
Memorials are suggested to the Lisbon United Methodist Church Stained Glass Window Restoration Fund.
Please share your support and memories with Anna's family on her tribute wall at www.stewartbaxter.com under obituaries.
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I send my sympathies to the family and friends of Anna.. I knew her a bit when we were kids long ago. With my parents – this is in the late 1940s – I would visit my grandparents, Fritz and Louise Dennler at their home east of Elgin. Across the road and down the hill toward the Turkey River lay the farm of Ern and Florence Friederich (Florence and my mom may have been related). We’d often go to visit them. My mom, Margaret, liked talking with Ern and Florence and my dad, Jake, had a good time speaking schweizerdeutsch with their elderly and near-blind hired man, Josie. Anna, who was a couple of years
younger than me, was a cheerful lively round-faced girl with braids and glasses. I remember her brother, Russ, too, and going out with him to bring in the cows one day. Bygone days. But in these days, warmest wishes to all who knew her and were close to her.
Harvey Sollberger
Strawberry Point
We want to send our condolences to the family of Anna. She will be missed
Our prayers are with you at this time.
Ken and Donna McConaughy