Services Zion Lutheran Church Denison, Iowa 10:30 A.M. - Friday, August 5, 1994
Officiant Rev. Kurt Kaiser
Organist Karen Kahl
Soloist Henry Henningsen
Solo Selections What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Congregational Hymns Beautiful Savior TLH: 657 I Know That My Redeemer Lives TLH: 200
Pallbearers: Rodney Backhaus, William Backhaus, Dale Schillerberg, David Backhaus, Jerry Backhaus, Scott Anderson
Interment Manning City Cemetery Manning, Iowa
The family invites everyone to remain at the church and join them in fellowship and lunch served by the Ladies Aid Walter A. Huebner and Sons' Funeral Service.

Milda E. Backhaus was born December 8, 1910, the daughter of Herman and Augusta (Tech) Schillerberg. She died at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa on Wednesday, August 3, 1994, at the age of eighty-three.

Milda was born on a farm in Hanover Township where she lived with her parents. She was baptized a Christian on January 15, 1911, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Hanover Township and later confirmed there on April 13, 1924, by Rev. Runge. As a young girl, Milda received her education at St. Paul's Lutheran School.

On February 7, 1932, Milda was united in marriage to Harry Backhaus at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. The couple settled on a farm in Ida County, until 1942 when they purchased a farm south of Westside. They continued to farm until 1979 when they retired and moved to Denison.

Milda was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Denison and a former member of Zion Ladies Aid in Manning. She was a loving wife and caring mother and grandmother, who enjoyed cooking, canning, tending to her garden and flowering plants, which she took great pride in.

She is preceded in death by her parents; one infant daughter; one grandson, Todd Yockey; one brother, Clarence Schillerberg; and one sister, Alice Aldag. Survivors include her husband, Harry of Denison; one daughter, Virginia Donnelson and her husband, Lyle of Glenwood, Iowa; one son, Dennis Backhaus and his wife, Margaret of Westside; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Also two brothers: Harold Schillerberg and his wife, Darlyne of Denison and Merle Schillerberg of Charter Oak; one brother-in-law, Louis Aldag of Schleswig; two sisters-in-law: Ella Hamann of Schleswig, and Bernice Bruhn and her husband, Irwin, of Denison.