1920 - 2017 (96 years)
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Name |
Viola Hildegard WUPPERMAN |
Birth |
11 Aug 1920 |
Austin, Travis, Texas, USA |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
16 Apr 2017 |
Titusville, Brevard, Florida, USA |
Burial |
25 Apr 2017 |
Oaklawn Memorial Gardens, Titusville, Brevard, Florida, USA |
Person ID |
I12713 |
von Rosenberg Family Tree |
Last Modified |
3 Aug 2017 |
Father |
Walter Otto WUPPERMAN, b. 12 Jan 1874, Düsseldorf, Rheinprovinz, Prussia, Germany d. 27 Oct 1950, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 76 years) |
Mother |
Elisabeth Marie VON ROSENBERG, b. 7 Aug 1880, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA d. 27 Oct 1967, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 87 years) |
Marriage |
20 Apr 1904 |
Austin, Travis, Texas, USA |
Photos |
| Walter Wupperman family children, l to r: Alfred, Walter, Alice |
Family ID |
F7257 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Earl Vogelsong LINDSAY, b. 10 Jun 1918, Enola, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA d. 7 Feb 1997, Titusville, Brevard, Florida, USA (Age 78 years) |
Marriage |
11 May 1941 |
Austin, Travis, Texas, USA |
Children |
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Family ID |
F8933 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
3 Mar 2014 |
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Notes |
- Hildegard and her siblings were raised in Austin. She attended University Junior High School, was active in Girl Scouts, sang in the choir, and took ballet. After graduating from Austin Senior High School in 1938 she spent two years at the University of Texas. She worked at her brother’s veterinary hospital on North Lamar in Austin.
She met her future husband, Earl (Buddy) Vogelsong Lindsay, at a square dance where he was the caller, and they married in 1941. Buddy was a petroleum engineer, and together they lived in many places such as Austin, Houston, Palestine, Eastland, Midland, Brenham, and Corsicana in Texas where they were with Tex Harvey Oil Co. with their growing family in tow. Hilde and Buddy always wanted a large family, and they were blessed to have seven children. The family moved from Denver, Colorado, to Titusville, Florida, in 1962 when Buddy was hired as an electrical engineer by Pan American at Cape Canaveral.
Hilde was a loving mom, teaching her children and grandchildren traditional homemaking skills, including cooking and sewing, and she taught the importance of shared holiday celebrations and traditions. She loved telling stories about her German heritage, and she talked of her childhood, her friends, relatives, the family farm, and her famous uncles who were Texas landscape artists. She was so proud of her heritage – the von Rosenberg Family of Texas - German immigrants who first settled in Austin in the early 1800’s. She attended the von Rosenberg Family reunions in Texas, even after moving to Florida.
Hilde had many friends who would say she was loyal, faithful, generous and caring. She could be feisty at times and spoke her mind. She could be funny and had a wonderful sense of humor. She was a “real lady,” and always tried to look her very best. Her social life was full of activities and no one was ever a stranger; she could make a friend of everyone.
One of the main activities she shared with her husband, for over 50 years, was Square dancing, Scottish and Folk dancing. Each week Hilde looked forward with eager anticipation to her Friday night dancing. She was a talented seamstress who loved to sew and made beautiful garments including many of their dancing outfits. She fashioned works of art like quilts, wall hangings, pillows, doll clothes, baby clothes and blankets, and stuffed animals. She was a charter member of Space Coast Quilters and spent many enjoyable hours quilting on a quilting frame set up in her living room. Hilde enjoyed music and the lovely flowers and birds in her gardens. She was active in the TOPS club, and was a long-time volunteer at the North Brevard Historical Museum. Hilde and Buddy traveled the U.S. in their camper van upon Buddy’s retirement. She valued her independence and drove herself around Titusville into her 90’s. She loved attending church services and Sunday school and was a faithful member of First United Methodist Church of Titusville.
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