Birth14 Apr 1866, Wittlingen, Lörracher Landkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe1351,1352,1353
Death28 Nov 1944, Landers Convalescent Home, Modesto, Stanislaus County, CA, USA9,1354
MemoDied at 3:17 pm from bronchial pneumonia and myocarditis. She was listed as also suffering from senility.
Burial30 Nov 1944, Modesto Pioneer Cemetery, 905 Scenic Dr., Modesto, Stanislaus County, CA, USA1352,1355,1356,1357
MemoFuneral officiated by Elder L. S. Melendy at Shannon Chapel on Sixteenth and I Streets.
Census1900, 7th Ward of Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA, USA1358
MemoSays she was born in April 1866 and 34 years old
Census1910, 7th Ward of Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA, USA802
MemoLine 89: Frida Sturm, age 43, born in Germany. Married 23 years. 6 children, all still living.
Census1920, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA, USA1359
MemoLine 47: Frieda Sturm, age 52. Divorced and head of household.
Census1930, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA, USA1360
MemoLine 96: Freda Sturm, age 62, born in Germany. Divorced. Immigrated in 1889.
Census1940, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA, USA1361
MemoLine 51: Frieda Schepp, age 72, born in Germany. Widowed.
Baptism6 May 1866, Wittlingen, Lörracher Landkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe1353
Immigration1889, Sacramento County, CA, USA
MemoCame to America while she was pregnant with Albert.
Residence1912, 1901 16th Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA, USA1362
FlagsDeceased, Immigrant
She is shown in a Sacramento City Directory (in 1933). The listing says:
Sturm Freda (wid) Geo h1905 16th
- Minnie (wid Jos) h2003 X
1379I interpret this to say that Frida was a widow in 1933. Doesn’t make sense to have her name as Sturm though since her second husband (George Schepp) was the one who widowed her. I did find a listing in the 1920 census of Orland, Glenn County, CA for Geo W Sturm and his wife Annette. I’m guessing something has been crossed up between the two. There is also a George and Anne Sturm in Oakland, Alameda County, CA in 1920.
Name at death was Frida Schepp (on both tombstone and California Death Index). Her maiden name is listed as Pommerlin on the California Death Index for her death, but as Pamerlin in the same index for Albert Sturm’s mother, Bamerlin, Bammerlin, Baumeline, etc.
9She spent her last years living with Albert and Ruby Sturm in Modesto.
Obituary from the Modesto Bee, Nov. 30, 1944
SCHEPP - In Modesto, November 28th, Frida; mother of Albert Strum (sic) of Modesto, Mrs. Freda Phillips, Mrs. Eda Burke and Mrs. Ona Rust of Sacramento, Mrs. Ella Smith of San Rafael and Captain Edwin Strum (sic), United States Army. A native of Germany, aged 78 years.
Friends are invited to attend funeral services Thursday at 1:30 in the Shannon Chapel, Sixteenth and I Streets. Elder L. S. Melendy officiating. Interment, Odd Fellows Cemetery.
1352Here is info from Albert Sturm Jr. (by way of Fred Webb):
Frida Schepp divorced Ludwig Sturm in 1914 in Sacramento. She had come to the US in 1889 while pregnant with Albert Sturm Sr. Frida was born as Frida Pamerlin in Baden-Baden Germany, Married Albert Sturm and emigrated with him to the US, divorced, and later married George Schepp.