Clara M. Sauer, age 102 of Elgin, passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at the Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center in Elgin.

Clara Martha Hinderer was born on August 7, 1917 in the Paradise Community of Grant County, ND to Paul and Karoline (Ulrich) Hinderer.  She attended rural Grant County Schools in the Paradise Community.

Clara was united in marriage to Arthur B. Sauer on December 9, 1935 in McIntosh, SD.  They began their life together on the Sauer place on Paradise Flats north of Watauga 17 miles.  Clara and Arthur continued living on the same place as Arthurs dad.  Arthur passed away on September 2, 1983.  Clara continued to live on the place until April of 2014 when she moved to Dakota Hills in Elgin.  In 2017, she moved to the Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center in Elgin.

Clara was a member of the Prairie Homemakers Club and the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Lemmon.  She loved cooking, baking, gardening, and crocheting.

Surviving family members include her 3 sons, Wayne Sauer, Mobridge, SD; Robert (Gloria) Sauer, and Willard (Joyce) Sauer, all of Carson, ND; 1 daughter, Audrey Pruitt, Elgin, ND; daughter-in-law, Virginia Sauer, McIntosh, SD; 22 grandchidren, 55 great grandchildren, 21 great great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parent, her husband, son Donald, son-in-law Richard Pruitt, daughter-in-law, Shirley Sauer, twin granddaughters Melissa and Melinda Sauer, grandson, John Wayne Sauer, brother Paul Hinderer, and sister, Helen Hinderer.

The Funeral Service for Clara will be held at 10:30am Saturday, August 31, 2019 at Bethesda Lutheran Church north of Morristown.  Pastor Bethany Haberstroh will officiate with burial in Bethesda Lutheran Cemetery.

A family service will be held at 6:00pm on Friday evening at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Elgin.  Visitation will be on Friday from 1:00 to 6:00pm at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Elgin.

Serving as casketbearers are her 9 grandsons.  Honorary casketbearers are her 13 granddaughters.