Service TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2003, 2:00 PM OHDE FUNERAL HOME, MANNING, IOWA
Officiating REVEREND MARSHALL BROWN FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MANNING, IOWA
Music "NOW THE DAY IS OVER" "A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD"
JUDY JOENS & MARSHALL BROWN, VOCALISTS
CONNIE SIEPKER, ORGANIST
"PRECIOUS LORD, TAKE MY HAND", RECORDING
Interment MANNING CEMETERY, MANNING, IOWA
Casketbearers: LILA SCHROEDER, REBECCA EISCHEID, MARG HUPP, ESTHER WILLIAMS, JOYCE BARSBY, VIRGINIA STRUVE, HERMANETTE TANK, VIRGINIA JOHNSON

The family wishes to express their gratitude for your kindness evidenced in thought, word and deed and invites you to join them for lunch and fellowship at the VFW Hall following the committal service.
Drivers In a funeral procession must turn on vehicle headlights, drive in a close formation and be alert.

Obituary by C.O. Lamp in the style of former Monitor Editor Peter Rix and the Salt Lake City newspaper.

Minnie Lamp, nee Hansen, peacefully passed away on Thursday, July 31, 2003, at the Manning Plaza Nursing Home in Manning at the age of ninety-eight. Born when walking to neighbors was in fashion, she lived well past the time when men walked on the moon.

Minnie was born June 10, 1905, on a remote farm in Crawford County to John F. and Mary (Lorenzen) Hansen. Life on the farm was difficult and often tragic. At a tender age Minnie had to serve as a pallbearer for a neighbor girl who reached up to the stove, grabbed a handle and pulled a pot of boiling lard over herself. Brother Frederich August died in 1923 when his car was struck and was pinned between two speeding trains racing in different directions. Brother Henry died in 1928 when his car upset and pinned him.

At the end of seventh grade, a man drove onto the yard in a wagon and asked for a girl to help him. Minnie was the eldest girl available and her father sent her. Of course there was no thought of payment. When Minnie arrived in Vail she found the woman had died and a baby turning blue. She nourished the infant with milk from the only cow. With no food in the house, and seeing bare bedsprings that night, Minnie decided to walk the nine miles home. In the morning a scolding father returned her to the job in Vail. He called for her when it was time to start the eighth grade. Shortly thereafter the school burned down.

A few years later, Minnie visited the Henry Guth family, when Herman Lamp arrived, hoping to hire one of the seven Guth daughters. None of the Guth girls accepted but Minnie agreed to become a hired girl for Joachim Lamp, his nearly blind wife Agnes, and their three sons who lived on a farm southeast of Manning. On December 1, 1926, she married Gerhardt Lamp, a veteran of World War I. Two children were born of the union, Clarence (C O) Lamp and Darlene Lamp.

The couple remained with Joachim and Agnes until their first child was two years old, and then moved to a farm a mile away. In 1932 they moved to a farm almost directly across the road from the Lamp homestead.

Always a hard worker, in addition to caring for the home, Minnie raised hundreds of chickens, milked cows, and lacking refrigeration, canned meat from home butchering and helped prepare sausage. She provided veritable banquets for corn shellers and threshers.

When her husband had minor surgery, a nephew Gerhardt Voge was called to help pick corn. When her team moved ahead of his, Voge assumed Minnie was picking only one row, but when he finally reached the end of the field he discovered she had been picking two.

The family moved a half mile south of Manning in September 1940 and Minnie became a charter member of the VFW Auxiliary and Friendly Neighbor Club. A member of the Presbyterian Church, Minnie was baptized August 27, 1911, by an itinerant preacher in a washtub in the family kitchen, along with several children she did not know.

Minnie possessed a sunny disposition and a sharp sense of humor. She made friends easily and following a stay in an Excelsior Springs, Missouri hospital, people she met there would stop and visit her on their way across the country. Minnie is credited with introducing the game Kings Corner to the Manning area.

She is survived by children C O Lamp and his wife Rosemary of Glendale, Arizona and Darlene Lamp of Manning; four grandchildren: Toni Hengesteg of Seattle, Lea Jane Lamp of Phoenix, Arizona; Calvin Lamp of Glendale, Arizona; Michael Lamp of Missouri; three great-grandchildren: Nathan Lamp of Phoenix, Arizona, David and Kathryn Hengesteg of Seattle, Washington; a brother, Leroy Hansen of Bellingham, Washington, and a sister, Ellen Murphy of Sacramento, California. Siblings Frederick August, Frieda, Anna, John, Thomas, Henry, Rose, Louie, and Freddie preceded Minnie in death.

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 2:00 p.m. Reverend Marshall Brown of the First Presbyterian Church, conducted services at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning. Judy Joens and Marshall Brown sang "Now the Day Is Over" and "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." The following members of the VFW Auxiliary served as casketbearers: Lila Schroeder, Rebecca Eischeid, Marg Hupp, Esther Williams, Joyce Barsby, Virginia Struve, Hermanette Tank and Virginia Johnson. Burial was at the Manning Cemetery.