Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran
SIEDENTOP
Alexander
Hines
Perry
Pratt
Riley
Ulmer
Goldia
M. Siedentop
Goldia May Siedentop , 99, of 2975
E. 480 North,
The retired teacher and farmer was born on
She accepted a position at
She met Walter Siedentop, a local farmer,
while she was in Hamlet, and they were married on
She and Walter had two daughters, Mary Lee
and Lenore. She returned to teaching for a period of time during
World War II. After Walter's death in 1953, she returned to
teaching and obtained her master's degree from
Goldia enjoyed teaching and took a personal interest in her students whom she held in great affection. She had a lifelong love of classical music, and was an accomplished seamstress and tailor, taking great pride in making clothing for her sister and her children. She fulfilled an enduring interest in art by taking up watercolors in her later life. She loved and had memorized a great deal of poetry, and could recite poems of James Russell Lowell and James Whitcomb Riley, two of her favorite poets. Her children and grandchildren especially enjoyed her highly dramatic renditions of "Li'l Orphan Annie." She was knowledgeable about and loved wild birds, and was an ambitious and energetic gardener. Her tomatoes were legendary and were on the table three meals a day all summer. She took great satisfaction in planting trees, and during her lifetime planted hundreds of trees in various location. She took special joy and delight in her grandchildren, Lee and Laura Nagai, Paul Nagai and Thomas Riley, and in her great-granddaughters, Margaret Ann and Katherine May Nagai, all of whom survive.
She was a founding member of the Country
Home Improvement Club (CHI), and designed the club's logo which
is still in use. She was also a member of Delta Pi Epsilon,
business educators' honor society, and the Farm Bureau of
Indiana. She was a member of the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church
in Hamlet,
She is survived by her sister, Mozella
Alexander of
A sister, Lucinda, who died in infancy, and a brother, Walter Hines, preceded her in death, as did her parents.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or to Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church in Hamlet.
Funeral services will be at
Friends may call from