Teuber Family - Hildegarde Olga Teuber - Page 1 - Birth Certificate

This is Grandma Hildegarde Triplett's death record.

I do not remember when I received this, but it could have been in the mid to late 1980's.

Grandma grew up in Huron, Beadle County, South Dakota. Her  father Albert had immigrated with his family to the United States, and settled in South Dakota.

She and my Grandfather Shirley Greene Triplett were married in July 1950. Grandpa's 2nd wife was my grandmother, Lenoir Inez Leonard who died 31 December 1949.

Grandpa and Grandma Hildegarde worked together at Electric Lab. Grandma worked in the office and Grandpa worked in the garage.

After their marriage, they settled down in the Illinois Street house. At that point Mom decided to move into her own apartment.

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This is an obituary for Grandma Hildegarde [I never called her that - she was GRANDMA!] 

This obituary reads: TRIPLETT,HILDEGARDE OLGA - in Fresno, July 5, age 77. Born in South Dakota, 30 years in Fresno. A homemaker and wife of S. G. Triplett of Fresno; mother of Paul Starr of Fresno; step-mother of  Mrs. Myron Winch of Fresno; sister of Mrs. Harry L. Andrews Sr. of Los Gatos and Mrs. Lewis Mittness of Jacksonville, Wis. One grandchild [me] survives.

   Graveside services held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Belmont Memorial Park. The Lisle Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

TRIPLETT, in Fresno, July 5, 1971 Hildegarde Olga Triplett. Wife of S.G. Triplett. Mother of Paul Starr. Stepmother of Mrs. Myron Winch. Sister of Mrs. Harry L. Andrews Sr., and Mrs. Lewis Mittness. Aunt of Mrs. Fred Heining [Henning] and Harry L. Andrews. Also survived by one granddaughter, Myra Lee Winch. Graveside Services, Thursday, July 8 1971 at 10:30 A.M. at Belmont Memorial Park. LISLE FUNERAL HOME directing.

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Grandma loved me more than life itself. She loved me and I love[d] her.

Some of the things I remember:

She loved to work in the yard. She and Grandpa had a rose garden in the backyard next to the disconnected garage.

She loved being in the mountains at our cabin, except the one day she was planting Iris bulbs, and a gopher popped out of a hole and looked at her. She came running back to the cabin screaming about the gopher.

She used a mangle iron to iron the pillow cases and sheets for their bed.

When she died, Mom and I would go over to the house and help Grandpa with changing the sheets and just check to make sure everything looked fairly well kept. He was still working at this point.

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One day Mom and I came into the house and washed/changed the bed linens. After the wash and drying were finished, we folded everything and opened the cupboard where the linens were kept.

We felt like we had violated some obvious rule of law - we hadn't ironed the sheets and pillowcases. It was definately obvious what we hadn't done!

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