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Lea Isaak

HAZEN -- Lea Isaak, 82, Hazen, died Sept. 7, 1999, at her home following an illness. Services will be held at 10 a.m. MDT Saturday at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Hazen, with the Rev. David Suelzle officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Visitation will be from 2-8 p.m. MDT Friday at Seibel Funeral Home, Hazen.

Lea was born Dec. 29, 1916, at Ree, a daughter of John and Pauline (Baisch) Wegerle. She was raised and educated in the Krem area. On June 30, 1935, she married Herbert Isaak at St. John's Lutheran Church, Krem. They farmed north of Hazen and supplied coal to neighbors from a vein in their backyard until 1947, when they moved to Hazen. Lea worked for a time at Bentley's Grocery Store. She then became a nurse's aide at Hazen Memorial Hospital where she worked for 30 years. Herb died on Dec. 4, 1986.

Lea was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Hazen, and had been a member of the LWML for more than 50 years. She was also a member of the St. Matthew Braille Workers and the Prairie Homemakers Club. Lea enjoyed her family, neighbors and friends very much. Her hobbies were knitting, crocheting, quilting, flowers and feeding birds.

She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Eileen and Ringer Bell, Stillwater, Minn., and Arlyes and Bill Tidwell, Pueblo, Colo.; one son, Ken Isaak, Spokane, Wash.; 10 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; one brother, Oscar Wegerle, Devils Lake; two sisters, Lorine Unterseher, Hazen, and Ann Wegerle, Bismarck; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Herb; three brothers, Albert, Art and Adam; and one sister, Emma.

Memorials are preferred to St. Matthew's Braille Workers or Sakakawea Select Hospice. (Seibel Funeral Home, Hazen)

~Source: The Bismarck Tribune, Sept. 1999