Mildred G. Eischens
April 26, 1917 - Nov. 9, 2007
MONTEVIDEO -- Mildred Gertrude Eischens, 90, of Montevideo died Friday at the Chippewa County-Montevideo Hospital.
The service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Montevideo. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. today at the church with a parish prayer service at 7 p.m. Anderson Funeral Home of Montevideo is in charge of arrangements.
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She was born April 26, 1917, in Omro Township, Yellow Medicine County, to Leo and Magdaline (Anthony) Abraham. She attended school at St. Leo.
On Oct. 19, 1937, she married Norbert Eischens at St. Leo. They lived in St. Leo until moving to Clarkfield in 1942. They moved to Canby in 1951, then to Appleton in 1955. In 2002 they moved to Montevideo. She worked at several places including Control Data, Fingerhut and B & H Electronics.
She was a longtime member of St. John's Catholic Church in Appleton where she was a member of the Rosary Society, a Eucharistic minister and a CCD teacher. She was currently a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Montevideo.
She is survived by her husband; nine children: Shirley Lesewski of Stanwood, Wash., Pat (and Eldon) Ostby of Montevideo, Donna Sherod of Benson, Connie (and Jerry) Rice of New London, Bob (and Patty) Eischens of Farmington, Mary Eischens of Willmar, Terry (and Pam) Eischens of Montevideo, Brenda (and Alan) Hoffman of Broken Arrow, Okla., and Vicki (and Randy) Zinda of Spicer; 21 grandchildren; 43 great-grandchildren; two brothers: Ralph Abraham of Dawson and Lambert Abraham of St. Leo; five sisters: Anita Kockelman of Dawson, Viola Fox of St. Leo, Lavina Fox of Slayton, Betty Lauck of Folsom, Calif., and Joyce Rueckert of New Ulm.
She was preceded in death by one grandson, one great-grandson, three brothers and two sisters.
