IDA PAULINA SCHMIDT        Elgin, ND

Service of Remembrance for Ida Paulina Schmidt, 96, of Elgin, ND will be Sunday, December 5, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hope Congregational Church in Elgin. Pastor Ellis Ryherd will officiate and burial will follow at the Congregational Cemetery in Elgin. Visitations will be from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4 and from 9:00 a.m. to noon on Sunday morning and one hour prior to the service at the church on Sunday afternoon. A family service will be held at the Funeral Home in Elgin at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday evening.

IDA PAULINA ENZI was born on March 10, 1908 near Old Leipzig, ND at her parents homestead to Jacob J. and Frieda (Werre) Enzi. She was raised north of New Leipzig and attended rural school. Ida began working with her family on their farm at a young age. In 1931 she was united in marriage to Edward J. Schmidt and they began their life together north of Elgin and then later moved north of New Leipzig. Edward and Ida had two sons and three daughters. They farmed for many years until retiring in 1963 and moved into New Leipzig and then to Elgin, ND in 1973. Edward passed away on July 17, 1975. Ida began travelling to the state of Washington to visit family. She remembered surviving the July 4, 1975 tornado that destroyed her apartment in Elgin, ND and also was in Washington when Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980. She loved to grow a garden and flowers. Ida taught herself how to play the piano and loved music. She enjoyed sewing, patchwork and making rugs. Ida was a loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother. After the age of 90 years, Ida moved into the Dakota Hill Housing and later into the Jacobson Memorial Care Center in Elgin. Ida Schmidt passed from this life at the Jacobson Memorial Care Center in Elgin in the early morning hours of December 3, 2004. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.

Grateful for having shared her life are her sons, Ervin R. and wife Betty Schmidt, of Tacoma, WA and Harry E. and wife Shirley Schmidt, of Elgin; daughters, Lyla Skaggs and special friend, Harry Dishman, of Marysville, WA, Marilyn and husband Dean Tietz, of Elgin and Scharlott and husband Richard Walters, of Duvall, WA; 15 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren, 3 step-great grandchildren, 3 great-great grandchildren and many friends and family members.

Ida was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Edward J. Schmidt, 3 brothers, Eddie, Oscar and a still born and two sisters, Elsa and Edna. Funeral arrangements are entrusted with the Evanson Jensen Funeral Home of Elgin, ND.