Anna M. Osterhaus

Anna M. Osterhaus, 97, Seneca, KS, died Friday evening, February 3, 2006, at the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital in Seneca.
      She was born October 28, 1908, on a farm east of Baileyville, the daughter of August and Mary Macke Huninghake. She attended Sacred Heart School and helped on the family farm. As a young woman, she did domestic work and helped with newborns in people's homes.
     On January 10, 1940, she married Albert G. Osterhaus at Sacred Heart Church. They lived and farmed east of Seneca until 1978 when they moved into Seneca. Her husband, Albert, died suddenly of a heart attack on March 4, 1987. She continued to live in her home in Seneca until health prevented it. In September of 2003, she entered Life Care Center in Seneca.
     She was a member of Sts. Peter & Paul Church, St. Ann’s Altar Society, and worked for ten years at the Mission Center at the church. Anna especially enjoyed being with her family and made them many afghans. She also liked sewing, crocheting, embroidering, quilting, other handiwork.
     Survivors are a son, Gerald B. Osterhaus, and a daughter, Donna Nordhus, both of Seneca; six grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
     Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by seven brothers, Herman, Frank, George, Henry, August, Paul, and Joseph Huninghake, and a sister, Elizabeth Osterhaus.
     The mass of Christian burial will be 10 AM Tuesday at Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Seneca. The burial will be in the church cemetery. The rosary will be prayed Monday at 2 and 7 PM at the Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca.
     Memorials may be given for the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital and sent in care of the family.