Hedwig “Hedy” Eisenhut, 96, of Sally Rd., Waterville, NY, passed away Saturday, December 3, 2011 at the Harding Nursing Home, Waterville.
She was born December 19, 1914 in Monroe, WI, a daughter of Bartholome and Katherina Frischknecht Stricker. At an early age she moved with her family to Waterville and was educated in the Hanover Green one-room schoolhouse. On December 23, 1933, Hedwig was married to Ernest Eisenhut in Rome, NY. He predeceased her on April 23, 2001. Hedy was a homemaker whose greatest joy was caring for her family.
She was a member of the Three Steeples Church in Paris, the Order of the Eastern Star in Waterville and the Waterville Garden Club.
Surviving are her children, Esther Swarthout, Ovid, NY; Shirley and Gary Smith, St. Louis, MO; John and Marion Eisenhut, Brookfield, NY; brother and sister-in-law, Ernest “Bill” and Mary Stricker, Clinton, NY; nine grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by a brother, John Stricker.
Memorial Services will be held at 2pm Friday, December 9, 2011 from the Kloster-Northrop & Bentz Funeral Home, 210 E. Main St., Waterville, followed by interment in the Crown Hill Memorial Park, Clinton.
Friends are invited to call at the funeral home on Friday from Noon until 2pm prior to the service.
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