Grandma Tegeder

Troy's paternal grandmother passed away on Tuesday. We will be making a quick trip to Utah this weekend to attend her funeral. She was a wonderful lady, but we are grateful that she is no longer suffering and has returned to a better place. We love you Grandma!! Her obituary is below.

E. Bernice Korsmeyer Tegeder1923 – 2009

E. Bernice Korsmeyer Tegeder, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away on April 21, 2009 at the age of 85 following a short illness from complications related to a colon infection.

She was born on September 21, 1923 at Meredosia, Illinois to Charles Louis Korsmeyer and Bertha Johanna Lovekamp Korsmeyer. She attended MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois—the first in her family to attend college. Her education was interrupted during WWII as she accepted an assignment from Morgan County, Illinois, to be a war-time school teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. Because education was important to her, she was very proud that all four of her children graduated from college. She also worked as a bank teller in Meredosia.

In 1950 she began a 58 and a half year marriage to her teenage sweetheart, Robert William Tegeder. They began their life together in Detroit, Michigan; moved to Ogden, Utah in 1957; and settled in Clearfield, Utah, in 1978. She devoted her life to caring for her husband and children.

She and her family lived on the campus of the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind in Ogden while her husband was the Superintendent from 1960 to 1978. During that time, she tirelessly and faithfully performed the duties as the unofficial First Lady of the Schools. She was the hostess to visiting educators and administrators, and she supported and attended countless school functions and events. She was also an avid sports fan, always rooting for the St. Louis Cardinals, the Jazz and Weber State.

She was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and was an active member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Ogden, for 52 years, the entire time she lived in Utah. While her children attended St. Paul Lutheran School, she was the organist for the weekly chapel services and yearly school operettas.

She is survived by her loving husband, four children, Robert William Tegeder, Jr., (Wendy) of Renton, Washington; Marjorie Ruth Tegeder of Clearfield; Jane Ellen Cameron (Randy) of Salt Lake City; and Alice Ann Peterson (Randy) of Boise, Idaho; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and her only sibling, Mabel Louise (Korsmeyer) Staake.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, April 24, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 3329 Harrison Blvd. in Ogden, Utah. Friends may call at the church on Friday one hour prior to services. Interment, Lindquist’s Memorial Park at Layton, 1867 North Fairfield Road A viewing will be held at the church one hour prior to the service. Funeral Directors, Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary Send condolences to the family at http://www.lindquistmortuary.com/