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Susanna Geistlinger Howard Hanke

29 Aug 1873 – 3 Jan 1950

Birth	29 Aug 1873
Death	3 Jan 1950
Cemetery	Trinity First Lutheran Cemetery Stuttgart , Phillips County , Kansas , USA
Added by	Clarence J BOHL on 28 Jan 2017
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61680723

Bio

Susanna [Geistlinger] Howard Hanke was born in Gols, Hungary (now part of Austria). Note: some records record her birth date as September 14, 1873. Her obituary says August 29, 1873. She immigrated to the US with her parents and four siblings, arriving on Dec. 5, 1881 when she was 8 years old. They lived near Lincoln, Nebraska. Susanna married Alexander Howard on August 28, 1890 in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska. They had eight children: Alexander E Howard 1891-1959 Harry F Howard 1892-1973 Susanna Rosina "Rose" [Howard] Barg 1894-1959 Elizabeth L Howard 1895-1975 John P Howard 1898-1955 Joseph M Howard 1900-1980 Sophia T Howard b. 1903 Esther C Howard -- died during her birth due to complications In 1920, the couple and their children were living next door to John and Alice [Barg] Culberth. Susanna's and Alexander's daughter, Susanna Rose Howard, had married Alice [Barg] Culberth's brother, William George Barg in 1915. Susanna's husband Alexander died on November 16, 1920. A year later, on November 30, 1921, Susanna married William Friedrich Hanke, a widower. There is no record that they had any children. Susanna had been in failing health for a number of years and spent the last three years with her children, two of them with Susanna Rose [Howard] Barg in Norton, Kansas. Family members recall that when Susanna died, she had long, coal black hair (not a single grey hair), a trait of many Hungarian people. Those family members also relate that Susanna was a practicing midwife most of her life, and had delivered hundreds of babies in the Stuttgart/Phillipsburg, KS region. Ironically, she was forced by circumstances to deliver her daughter, Esther, by herself, and accidentally broke the baby's neck during delivery leading to the infant's immediate death.

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Family

Parents

• Matthias Geistlinger 1842–1910
• Rosina Fleischacker Geistlinger 1842–1922

Spouse

• Wilhelm Fredrich "William" Hanke 1863–1950 FaG
• Alexander Howard 1865–1920 FaG

Siblings

• Johann "John" Geistlinger 1868–1924
• Paul Geistlinger 1870–1954
• Theresia "Rose" Geistlinger 1877–1942
• Mathias Geistlinger 1880–1944
• Elizabeth G Geistlinger Hinrichs 1883–1965

Children

• Alexander E. Howard 1891–1959 FaG
• Susanna Rosina Howard Barg 1894–1959 FaG
• Elizabeth Howard Hasenyager 1895–1975 FaG
• John Paul Howard 1898–1955 FaG
• Joseph M Howard 1900–1980 FaG

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