A funeral will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday at Memorial Gardens Funeral Chapel for Clara Bauer, who died in Vancouver on Saturday, March 6, 1999. She was 94.
Mrs. Bauer, whose maiden name was Nydegger, was born April 28, 1904, in Canton Fribourg, Switzerland.
She came to the United States in 1922 and lived on a dairy farm in Woodland from 1944 to 1992 when she moved to Vancouver.
Her husband, Eugene "Shorty," died in 1972.
Survivors include two daughters, Rosaly Divens of Vancouver and Nancy Troyer of Auburn, Wash.; one brother, Max Nydegger of Switzerland; two sisters, Rosli Steffen and Martha Bertschi, both of Switzerland; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Bauer loved to bake cookies and work in her flower garden. She was still knitting blankets for her great-grandchildren until she was 92.
Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Columbian, The (Vancouver, WA) — Tuesday, March 9, 1999
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1930 Census - Portland (Districts 1-219), Multnomah, Oregon, United States
Paul E Froelich Head M 57 Wisconsin
Louise B Froelich Wife F 56 Ohio
Clara Nydegger Servant F 25 Switzerland
1940 Census - Election Precinct 400 Columbia, Multnomah, Oregon, United States
Eugene Bauer Head M 34 Switzerland
Clara Bauer Wife F 35 Switzerland
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New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island)
Given Name Clara
Surname Nydegger
Last Place of Residence Optikon, Switzerland
Event Date 27 Dec 1922
Age 18y
Nationality Swiss, Germ.
Departure Port Hamburg
Arrival Port New York
Gender Female
Marital Status S
Ship Name Mount Carroll
Clara's passenger list record shows she immigrated with her father, Simon Nydegger. He was 48, widowed, a farmer; He was from Optikon, Switzerland; his nearest relative was "brother: Johann Nydegger, Schwarzenburg, Kanton Bern." They were going to Scappoose, Oregon to join his son, Walter Nydegger.
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Oregonian
Portland, Oregon
Tuesday, January 11, 1938
Portland Marriage Licenses
Bauer-Nydegger - Eugene Bauer, route 4, box 1370, and Clara Nydegger, 1623 Northeast Knott street.
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A funeral will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday at Memorial Gardens Funeral Chapel for Clara Bauer, who died in Vancouver on Saturday, March 6, 1999. She was 94.
Mrs. Bauer, whose maiden name was Nydegger, was born April 28, 1904, in Canton Fribourg, Switzerland.
She came to the United States in 1922 and lived on a dairy farm in Woodland from 1944 to 1992 when she moved to Vancouver.
Her husband, Eugene "Shorty," died in 1972.
Survivors include two daughters, Rosaly Divens of Vancouver and Nancy Troyer of Auburn, Wash.; one brother, Max Nydegger of Switzerland; two sisters, Rosli Steffen and Martha Bertschi, both of Switzerland; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Bauer loved to bake cookies and work in her flower garden. She was still knitting blankets for her great-grandchildren until she was 92.
Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Columbian, The (Vancouver, WA) — Tuesday, March 9, 1999
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1930 Census - Portland (Districts 1-219), Multnomah, Oregon, United States
Paul E Froelich Head M 57 Wisconsin
Louise B Froelich Wife F 56 Ohio
Clara Nydegger Servant F 25 Switzerland
1940 Census - Election Precinct 400 Columbia, Multnomah, Oregon, United States
Eugene Bauer Head M 34 Switzerland
Clara Bauer Wife F 35 Switzerland
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New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island)
Given Name Clara
Surname Nydegger
Last Place of Residence Optikon, Switzerland
Event Date 27 Dec 1922
Age 18y
Nationality Swiss, Germ.
Departure Port Hamburg
Arrival Port New York
Gender Female
Marital Status S
Ship Name Mount Carroll
Clara's passenger list record shows she immigrated with her father, Simon Nydegger. He was 48, widowed, a farmer; He was from Optikon, Switzerland; his nearest relative was "brother: Johann Nydegger, Schwarzenburg, Kanton Bern." They were going to Scappoose, Oregon to join his son, Walter Nydegger.
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Oregonian
Portland, Oregon
Tuesday, January 11, 1938
Portland Marriage Licenses
Bauer-Nydegger - Eugene Bauer, route 4, box 1370, and Clara Nydegger, 1623 Northeast Knott street.
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