Metta Bohn

METTA ENONA BOHN

Strength and honour
are her clothing;
and she shall rejoice
in time to come,
Her children arise up,
and call her blessed.

PROVERBS 31:25-28

Metta passed from the visible into the eternal on November 29, 2004 at the age of 93 at Fountain View Care Center, Ripon, WI, where she resided since June 1998.
She was born September 1, 1911 to Ora M. & Iana D. (Lamb) Starks, in the Township of Deerfield, Waushara County, WI. She was baptized at Grace Lutheran Church in the Township of Deerfield. She attended the North Deerfield County School. On February 3, 1927 she married Edward R. Bohn at Wautoma., WI, with the Reverend Bernard J.E. Stelter officiating.
Since the age of 10 years, Metta helped her father on the family farm where she was born. She farmed with her husband for about 20 years. In 1948 at the time of the auction of the farm items, she worked at Speed Queen till 1949. She then started at Ripon Foods Inc, where she worked for 29 years. She was a line supervisor when she retired. Thereafter, she went to school for training to be a nurse’s assistant.
She was a member of the Mayflower Society of Wisconsin, Daughters of the American Revolution Society (Scott Horner Chapter Ripon), Rural Rembrandt Art Club, Princeton and Ripon Senior Citizens Clubs and VFW Post 5278 Ladies Auxiliary. She received her high school equivalency diploma at the age 68 years, which was a great achievement for her. She was an avid walker every morning. Her hobbies were cake decorations, glass etching, knitting, crocheting, oil paintings, water colors and charcoal drawings. She enjoyed playing the organ, accordion, traveling, camping and spending time with family and friends. She was a loving mother and grandmother.
Metta is survived by 7 children, 4 daughters and 3 sons, Bertha (Harry) Wallace, Racine, WI, Martin (Patricia) Bohn, Sun City, AZ, Arnold (Merle) Bohn, Mountain Home, TX, Arlene (Carroll) Schilf, Ripon, WI, Emil (Janet) Bohn, Neshkoro, WI, Joyce (John) Nowacki, Princeton, WI, Sandra Parks, Egan, MN; 26 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; and 5 great-great-grandchildren. She is further survived by sisters, Velma Borkenhagen, Beloit, WI, Zita Shippee, Oregon, WI, Ilona (Russell) Clark, Manteno, IL; and brother, Walter (Marianne) Starks, Berlin, WI; and sister-in-law, Bina Starks, Tomahawk, WI; and many nieces & nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1979, daughter Lois (Thomas) Erdmann, 1 grandson Michael Bohn, sisters Zona Starks, April Zuehlke, brothers, Curtis, Nelson, Ross and Bert Starks, sisters-in-law, Laura Starks, Maribell Starks, brothers-in-law, Duane Shippee, George Zuehlke and John Borkenhagen.
Metta is a member of Mt Zion Lutheran Church, Ripon, WI.
Visitation will be from 10:00 AM till the time of the funeral service at 11:00 AM on Friday, December 3, 2004 at Butzin-Marchant Funeral Home, 515 Mayparty Drive, Ripon, WI with the Rev. Paul Mose officiating, with burial at Oakwood Cemetery, Berlin, WI. A memorial has been established.

God gave us a very special gift,
we called her “MOM”
In loving memory,
peacefully sleeping,
resting at last;
the worlds weary troubles
and trials are past,
in silence she suffered,
in patience she bore;
till God called her home,
to suffer no more.
Butzin-Marchant Funeral Home, Ripon, is assisting the family.
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