Descendants of John Oachs
Generation No. 1
1. JOHN3 OACHS (PETER CHARLES2 OCHS, PETER1) was born 26 Feb 1876 in Minnesota, and died 19 Apr 1957 in Blue Earth, Minnesota. He married ETHEL JEAN ACKERMAN 1900 in Sterling Center, Blue Earth, Minnesota. She was born 13 Mar 1877, and died 09 Jul 1973.
Children of JOHN OACHS and ETHEL ACKERMAN are:
i. THEODORE LAWRENCE4 OACHS, b. 19 Feb 1901, Mapleton, Minnesota; d. 05 Aug 1982; m. LUELLA MILDRED KAIBEL; b. 01 Dec 1904; d. 04 Feb 1999.
ii. VALDAH ELIZA OACHS, b. 24 Jul 1904, Mapleton, Minnesota; d. 08 Dec 2003, Vernon Center, Minnesota. m. (1) HARLEY JAMES SPENCE, 23 Aug 1922, Little Brown Church, Nashua, Iowa; b. 29 Mar 1900, Story, Iowa; d. 05 May 1956, Minneapolis, Minnesota; m. (2) CLINTON MEYER, 19 Feb 1962, Cleveland, Minnesota; b. 02 Jun 1898, Blue Earth County, Minnesota; d. 03 Aug 1973, Vernon Center, Minnesota.
Obituary: Valdah E. Spence Meyer, age 99 of Madelia, formerly of Vernon Center, died Monday, December 8, 2003 at Luther Memorial Home, Madelia. Services will be 10:30 a.m., Friday, December 12, 2003, at Grace Methodist Church, Vernon Center, with Rev. Wanda Kothlow officiating. Interment is in Vernon Center Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday at Lake Crystal Mortuary, and continues one hour before services at church on Friday.Mrs. Meyer was born July 24, 1904, in Sterling Township, Blue Earth Co., to John and Ethel (Ackerman) Oachs. She was united in marriage to Harley Spence on August 23, 1922, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, IA. She later married Clinton Meyer on Feb. 19, 1962, in Cleveland, MN. Valdah was a homemaker and member of Grace United Methodist Church of Vernon Center. She enjoyed flower gardening, crocheting, old time dancing, and her cat.Mrs. Meyer is survived by one daughter and her husband, Shirley and Earl Reid of rural Vernon Center; two sons and their wives, Stanley and Grace Spence of rural Vernon Center, Robert and Judy Spence of Eugene, OR; 12 grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren; one great-great grandson; two nephews and one niece. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Harley on May 5, 1956, and her second husband, Clinton on August 3, 1973; one grandson; one great grandson; and one brother.
