Billings Gazette Billings, MT 24 Mar 2007 FAIRVIEW - Funeral services for Freida Schlothauer, 90, of Fairview, are at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 25, at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Sidney, with Pastor David Warner officiating. Interment will be in the Fairview Cemetery under the direction of Fulkerson Funeral Home. Freida was the warm and gentle heart of the Schlothauer family. She will be remembered for her quiet ways, her kindness, her faith and her delightful sense of humor. Fredericka Bieber was born on Nov. 24, 1916, to German immigrants Peter and Fredericka Whittmier Bieber, on a homestead near Hilda, Alberta, Canada. She was the ninth of 10 children. The family moved to South Dakota, where the children started school. As an adult, Frieda told her children that she was afraid to start school because she didn't speak English. In the spring of 1922, they relocated to Sidney, where the Holly Sugar Corporation was recruiting families to help build a sugar factory and work in the beet fields. The older children learned to hoe beets and the younger ones thinned behind them. They attended the Newlon School south of Sidney. Soon the family moved to a farm on what later became known as the Pomeville place. The children attended the Bieber School located on the southeast corner of the farm. Freida was a member of the first confirmation class of what is now St. John Lutheran Church in Fairview. She was the last surviving charter member of the church. Freida met Dave Schlothauer while he was working on a farm south of her parent's place. Later in life, Freida recounted to her children that Dave courted her in a Ford Roadster with button down curtains. Dave and Freida were married in Sidney on Nov. 21, 1936. During the first year of their marriage, they lived with her parents and later shared the house with her brother George and his wife Alvina. In the spring, Dave and Freida moved to the Jake Reidle farm, where they thinned beets and helped with the harvest. In the fall of 1939, they bought four acres of land east of Fairview and had a house moved in from the hills. Dave and Frieda's first two children, Donald and Kenneth, were born in this house. In the spring of 1941, they moved to land near Nohle. It was during these years that Harold was born at the Broadhead Nursing Home in Fairview. In the spring of 1945, Dave and Freida bought 80 acres in North Dakota two miles east of Fairview. This is where they farmed and made their family home for the next 30 years. Charlene was born in the fall of 1945 and Linda eight years later. In 1968, Freida's wish for a new house came true. After all of the kids were grown, Dave and Freida enjoyed traveling to the southwest each winter. They owned a winter home in Yuma, Ariz., for several years, where they had good times with other snow birds and visitors. Dave passed away in August of 1990. Freida continued to live in the country home until 1999, when she moved to Fairview. Two years later, she relocated to the Lodge on Lone Tree Creek in Sidney. Throughout Freida's life, she demonstrated a love of reading, traveling and learning about all of life. She enjoyed vegetable and flower gardening, quilting, agate work and craft projects of all sorts. Freida played a great hand of whist and enjoyed many card and board games. She was an excellent cook and her family will long remember the great German dishes and pies that were a specialty. Freida is survived by her sister, Anna; her children, Don (Sandra), Ken (Stephanie), Harold (Loretta), Charlene Hogarty and Linda Soderlind; her grandchildren, Kelly, Vicki, Shannon, Casey, Rob, Dirk, Lonna, Michael, Kate, Cynthia, Kimberly, Erica and Dave; and her great-grandchildren, Grant, Gabriella, Xander, Brock, Ashley, Jade, BayLee, Nadia, KennaDee and Aiken. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Dave, three brothers and five sisters.