Trintje (Tena) Meints

Whereabouts
- Tena lived in ED 58 Logan Township, Gage, Nebraska, United States.³
  - Occupancy/Contact Notes
    - In 1900
  She lived in Oneida, Kearney County, Nebraska.⁴
  - Occupancy/Contact Notes
    - in 1930
  She lived in Gage County, Nebraska.⁵
  - Occupancy/Contact Notes
    - in 1920

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Henry C. Meints
  - b.09 Oct 1859 in Strackholt, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.11 Nov 1946 in Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska
  
  Trintje (Tena) Meints
  - b.01 Jul 1886 in Hanover, Gage County, Nebraska d.07 Feb 1979 in Minden, Kearney County, Nebraska
  
  Rencke Claaßen Zimmermann
  - b.18 Jun 1798 in Strackholt, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.22 Oct 1844 in Fiebing, Ostfriesland, Lower Saxony, Germany
  
  Tamme Renken Zimmermann
  - b.14 Oct 1834 in Fiebing, Ostfriesland, Lower Saxony, Germany d.09 May 1925 in Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska
  
  Tamme Janssen Berg
  - b.31 Oct 1764 in Strackholt, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.01 Feb 1815 in Strackholt, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany
  
  Etje Tammen Berg
  - b.01 Nov 1797 in Strackholt, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.01 Jun 1837 in Fiebing, Ostfriesland, Lower Saxony, Germany
  
  Kobus Harmens ^*
  - b.07 Jul 1713 in Strackholt, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.05 Jul 1793 in Strackholt, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany
  
  Taelke Kobus Liesemann
  - b.07 Oct 1769 in Strackholt, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.22 Feb 1857 in Fiebing, Ostfriesland, Lower Saxony, Germany
  
  Taalke Frerichs ^*
  - b.27 Mar 1734 in Bagband, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.09 May 1814 in Strackholt, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany
  
  Abbie Zimmerman
  - b.10 Apr 1863 in Hanover, Gage County, Nebraska d.04 Feb 1952 in Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska
  
  Eilert Eilerts Rossmüller
  - b.11 May 1771 in Strackholt, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.22 Dec 1848 in Voßbarg, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany
  
  Eilert Eylers Rossmueller
  - b.21 Jun 1802 in Voßbarg, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.~ 1855 in Lebanon, St. Clair County, Illinois
  
  Albert Melchers ^*
  - b.08 Oct 1734 in Timmel, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.31 Mar 1816 in Grossefehn, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany
  
  Trientje Alberts
  - b.22 Sep 1774 in Grossefehn, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.26 Feb 1854 in Voßbarg, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany
  
  Gretje Behrends
  - b.~12 Sep 1739 d.07 Nov 1822 in Timmel, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany
  
  Katherine Miller
  - b.13 Jan 1843 in Voßbarg, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.11 Jul 1910 in Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska
  
  Abbe Janssen Goosmann
  - b.26 Oct 1816 in Voßbarg, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany d.20 Aug 1851 in Voßbarg, Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

Personal Timeline

Children
- Helen Katharina Bruns
  
  Falkert and Helen Garrelts Gravestone
  
  Helen was born on September 25th, 1910 in Hildreth, Franklin County, Nebraska.¹ She died at the age of 89 on October 14th, 1999 in Minden, Kearney County, Nebraska. She was buried in Wilcox Cemetery, Wilcox, Kearney County, Nebraska.¹¹
  
  Frieda C. Bruns
  Frieda was born on May 17th, 1912 in Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska.¹ She died at the age of 91 on October 1st, 2003 in Minden, Kearney County, Nebraska. She was buried on October 4th, 2003 in Hildreth Cemetery, Hildreth, Franklin County, Nebraka.¹¹
  Emma Matilda Bruns
  Emma was born on March 18th, 1915 in Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska.¹ She died at the age of 93 on October 23rd, 2008 in Alma, Harlan County, Nebraska. She was buried on October 27th, 2008 in St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery, Wilcox, Kearney County, Nebraska.¹¹
  - Death Notes
    
    Emma Matilda (Bruns) Bartels, 93, of Alma, formerly of Wilcox, died Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008, at Good Samaritan Society in Alma.
    
    Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. John's Lutheran Church in Wilcox with the Rev. Ken Birtell of Holdrege and Vicar Mel Mertens of Wilcox officiating. Burial will be at St. John's Lutheran Cemetery near Wilcox.
    
    Visitation will be from noon to 8 p.m. today (Saturday) and Sunday at Banta-Torrey Funeral Home in Wilcox and before services Monday at the church.
    
    She was born March 18, 1915, in rural Beatrice in Gage County to J. Henry and Tena (Meints) Bruns.
    
    On Oct. 18, 1936, she married Theodore "Ted" Bartels in Kimball. He died Nov. 7, 1999.
    
    Survivors include her sons, Arlyn and his wife, Jean, of Las Cruces, N.M., and Daniel and his wife, Patricia, of Lincoln; daughter, Dolores Tupper and her husband, Roger, of Naponee; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; stepsisters-in-law, Ilene Stratman of Minden and Sophie Stratman of Holdrege; other relatives; and a host of friends.
    
    She was baptized as an infant at a Lutheran church in Hildreth where she was also confirmed in 1929. She attended Smithfield Rural School District 56 in Franklin County and high school at Wilcox, where she graduated in 1934.
    
    She and her husband were married at the Lutheran parsonage in Kimball. The family resided on farms in the Wilcox area before moving to Wilcox in 1973. She resided at Holdrege Memorial Homes from September 1999 until July 10, 2005, when she became a resident of Good Samaritan Society in Alma.
    
    She had cooked at the Wilcox school for a number of years and was an Avon representative.
    
    She enjoyed children, especially her grandchildren. She enjoyed sewing and embroidering.
    
    She had been an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church at Wilcox, L.W.M.L., Ruth's Society and the Ladies Aid.
    
    In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her father in 1917; her mother; son, Robert in 1968; stepfather, Ed Stratman; sisters, Frieda Johnson and her husband, Fred, and Helen Garrelts and her husband, Folkert; half brother, Harvey Stratman and his wife, Evelyn; half sister Rosie Nelson and her husband, Phillip; stepsister, Tina Schmidt and her husband, William; and stepbrothers, John Stratman and his wife, Ruth, Albert Stratman, Rudolph Stratman and Walter Stratman.
    
    Memorials are suggested to St. John's Lutheran Church in Wilcox.
    (Published in Kearney Hub from October 25 to October 26, 2008)

Children
- Harvey E Stratman
  Harvey was born on June 17th, 1924 in Hildreth, Franklin County, Nebraska.⁶ He died at the age of 67 on November 10th, 1991 in Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska. He was buried at the Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Hildreth, Franklin County, NE.²⁶
  
  Rosetta (Rosie) Adeline Stratman
  
  Philip and Rosetta Nelson Gravestone
  
  Rosetta, known as Rosie, was born on March 15th, 1928 in Hildreth, Franklin County, Nebraska.¹ She died at the age of 78 on February 12th, 2007 in Holdrege, Phelps County, Nebraska. She was buried on February 16th, 2007 at the Prairie Home Cemetery, Holdrege, Phelps County, NE.¹¹

Trintje (Tena) Meints

Whereabouts

Ancestor Pedigree Chart

Personal Timeline

Tena's first family

Children

Tena's second family

Children