Submitted by Melva Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
December 7, 1953 - Monday, pg 2 col 3
TILDA (Cassens) OLTMANNS
Mrs. Amil Oltmanns Dies At Home This Morning
Mrs. Amil Oltmanns, 71, passed away at 5:30 a.m. today in her home at Lyndon. She had been in failing health for some time.
Funeral rites will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Trouth Funeral Home and 2:30 p.m. in the Rock Falls Lutheran Church. The burial will take place in Riverside Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Tilda Cassens was born Sept. 10, 1882, in Sterling, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cassens, and had lived in this vicinity her entire lifetime. She was united in marriage with Amil Oltmanns Feb. 5 1902, at the home of her parents. The couple had since been engaged in farming. Mrs. Oltmanns was active in the Lutheran Church.
Surviving with the husband are four sons and one daughter, Ernest of Albany, Alfred of Milledgeville, Walter of Lyndon, Raymond of Prophetstown, and Mrs. Harold Stewart, Sterling. She also leaves 13 grandchildren and three brothers, Eckhart and Ernest Cassens of Sterling, and Fredolph Cassens of Round Grove.
Mrs. Oltmanns was preceded in death by her parents, one daughters, three brothers and one sister.
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