1924
Elizabeth
2014
Elizabeth Anton
October 12, 1924 — August 10, 2014
Elizabeth (Baron) Anton passed from this life to the next at her home in Mandan on August 10, 2014. She was at peace and happy to go on.
Cremation has taken place and a Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at Christ the King Catholic Church in Mandan with the Rev. Nick Schneider as celebrant. Burial service will be held at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck after lunch and fellowship at Christ the King Cafeteria.
Visitation will be held from 4:00 – 8:00 pm at Weigel Funeral with a Catholic Daughters Rosary on Monday, August 18, 2014 at 6:30 pm followed by a Parish Vigil at 7:00 p.m. Visitation will continue at the church one hour prior to the service on Tuesday.
Elizabeth Baron was born on October 12, 1924 to Rosa and Alexander Baron in the Ukraine, Russia. Her mother, Rosa, raised Elizabeth and her five siblings by herself after Alexander died when Elizabeth was very young. She had much admiration for her mother and her care for her family under very difficult conditions. Elizabeth hired out to work in homes starting at age 7. As Germans who immigrated to Russia many generations earlier, they were persecuted there and the family was separated when they were forced to leave their home. She was forced to march out of Russia and reached Poland in 1943. She escaped and fled to Austria and to Berlin. She received refuge from the American sector and never saw her mother and one brother after she left Russia. Her uncle, Lorenz Baron, who had immigrated to Mandan, ND, sponsored her to come to US in 1951. She learned English, graduated High School and started work at St. Alexius Hospital in 1952. She became a naturalized citizen in April, 1957.
Elizabeth worked at the Hospital for 40 years in the OB Department. She assisted thousands of mothers and their babies through childbirth. She loved her work and the family hears much praise for her caring ways. She loved small children and cared for several families in her time off. She also did much traveling and visited many places around the world.
Elizabeth was married to Alfred Haas from 1974 to 1986 and loved being a stepmother to his five children, Donna Haas, Steven Haas, Vicki Bailey, Kevin Haas and Charlotte Erickson.
She met and married Edmund Anton, who was also from the Ukraine area in 1991. They shared a happy life together at their home in St. Louis, Mo., and lake home south of St. Louis until Edmund’s death in 1999. In 2004, ND family brought her back to Mandan and she has resided in Adult Foster Care. She was very content to be included in the family atmosphere at home of Dave and Joyce Baker.
Elizabeth lived a very unusual life. She was very intelligent, hard-working, caring and generous to all of us.
She truly believed in sharing what she considered her very good fortune and will be long remembered by all who knew her.
She is survived by one sister, Antonio Reimchen, Germany and numerous nieces and nephews in Germany; Baron cousins in the US who loved her as a sister.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her brothers Franz Stroh and Ludwig Baron; sisters, Margaret Usselman and Veronica Baron; Uncles Lorenz and Christian Baron and many US cousins.
Because Elizabeth loved little children so much, the family is requesting donations to the Littlest Angels Development Center for needed supplies and play equipment in lieu of flowers.
Cremation has taken place and a Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at Christ the King Catholic Church in Mandan with the Rev. Nick Schneider as celebrant. Burial service will be held at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Bismarck after lunch and fellowship at Christ the King Cafeteria.
Visitation will be held from 4:00 – 8:00 pm at Weigel Funeral with a Catholic Daughters Rosary on Monday, August 18, 2014 at 6:30 pm followed by a Parish Vigil at 7:00 p.m. Visitation will continue at the church one hour prior to the service on Tuesday.
Elizabeth Baron was born on October 12, 1924 to Rosa and Alexander Baron in the Ukraine, Russia. Her mother, Rosa, raised Elizabeth and her five siblings by herself after Alexander died when Elizabeth was very young. She had much admiration for her mother and her care for her family under very difficult conditions. Elizabeth hired out to work in homes starting at age 7. As Germans who immigrated to Russia many generations earlier, they were persecuted there and the family was separated when they were forced to leave their home. She was forced to march out of Russia and reached Poland in 1943. She escaped and fled to Austria and to Berlin. She received refuge from the American sector and never saw her mother and one brother after she left Russia. Her uncle, Lorenz Baron, who had immigrated to Mandan, ND, sponsored her to come to US in 1951. She learned English, graduated High School and started work at St. Alexius Hospital in 1952. She became a naturalized citizen in April, 1957.
Elizabeth worked at the Hospital for 40 years in the OB Department. She assisted thousands of mothers and their babies through childbirth. She loved her work and the family hears much praise for her caring ways. She loved small children and cared for several families in her time off. She also did much traveling and visited many places around the world.
Elizabeth was married to Alfred Haas from 1974 to 1986 and loved being a stepmother to his five children, Donna Haas, Steven Haas, Vicki Bailey, Kevin Haas and Charlotte Erickson.
She met and married Edmund Anton, who was also from the Ukraine area in 1991. They shared a happy life together at their home in St. Louis, Mo., and lake home south of St. Louis until Edmund’s death in 1999. In 2004, ND family brought her back to Mandan and she has resided in Adult Foster Care. She was very content to be included in the family atmosphere at home of Dave and Joyce Baker.
Elizabeth lived a very unusual life. She was very intelligent, hard-working, caring and generous to all of us.
She truly believed in sharing what she considered her very good fortune and will be long remembered by all who knew her.
She is survived by one sister, Antonio Reimchen, Germany and numerous nieces and nephews in Germany; Baron cousins in the US who loved her as a sister.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her brothers Franz Stroh and Ludwig Baron; sisters, Margaret Usselman and Veronica Baron; Uncles Lorenz and Christian Baron and many US cousins.
Because Elizabeth loved little children so much, the family is requesting donations to the Littlest Angels Development Center for needed supplies and play equipment in lieu of flowers.
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