Audrey Elizabeth

(Jahn) Schlender

Audrey Elizabeth Jahn Schlender has gone to live with her Lord and Savior after living 102 years, 3 months and 18 days on earth. Audrey was the first born daughter of Roy and Mabel Jahn.

She was born on the Hickory Grove family farm near Jefferson and attended country school near the farm through 8th grade at St. John's Lutheran School in Jefferson and later at Jefferson High School.

She was baptized & confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church in Jefferson and is a long time member of the Lake Mills Moravian Church.

Audrey married the love of her life, Roy Schlender on May 28, 1932 in Rockford, Illinois and enjoyed 66 years together. They loved their first and only born child. Patricia Ann (Pat).

Audrey and Roy enjoyed working together repairing and refinishing many antiques, especially clocks. She enjoyed the outdoors, planting trees and shrubs, growing flowers from seeds, and birding. In the seventies she enjoyed banding birds and held a federal and state bird banding license. At that time there were large colonies of Purple Martins and many Tree Swallows on their property. She also participated in many bird and crane counts.

Audrey "Nonnie" was a blessing to her family in so many ways.

Since January of 2015 she was lovingly attended to by the staff at Brook Gardens Place in Lake Mills.

Audrey loved her family and especially enjoyed her daughter and all her grandchildren.

She is survived by her daughter Pat Kottwitz, grandchildren Jody (Glenn) Wolff, Jay (Bernadette) Kottwitz, James (Gail) Kottwitz, Jeffery (Mary) Kottwitz, Jed (Jessica) Kottwitz, her great-grandchildren Patresa (Jeff Grossman) Wolff, Derek (Becky) Wolff, Sally (Steve) Lynd, Sheila Wolff, Michelle (Adam) Sigmund, Christine (Scot) Strauss, Skyler (Casey) Kottwitz, Joe (Jill Zoellick) Kottwitz, Roy (Malorie) Kottwitz, Victor (Lindsay) Kottwitz, and Peter (Sara) Kottwitz, Madeline, Klaudia and Tessa Kottwitz. She is also survived by great-great-grandchildren, Ryan Grossman, Parker Wolff, Ashley Strieter, Erin Lynd, Brandon Glock, Maria Villanuova, Lane and Dylan Brinkmann, Jack and Cooper Sigmund, Owen, Taylor, Jared and Aubrey Strauss, and Henry Kottwitz. She is further survived by a sister-in-law, Helen Jahn; nephews, Lee (Kip) Engsberg, Richard (Sheila) Jahn; niece, Katharine (Ron) Cook; and her special canary Tweetybird.

Audrey was preceded in death by her husband, Roy, on September 14, 1998, her parents Roy & Mabel Jahn, sister Mildred "Millie" Engsberg, brother Laurence (Helen) Jahn, brother-in- law Don Engsberg, son-in-law Lloyd Kottwitz, and great-grandson Neil Robert Stark.

Private family services for Audrey will be held at a later date with burial in Summit Cemetery in Oconomowoc.

If desired, memorials would be appreciated to the Lake Mills Moravian Church or Rainbow Hospice, Inc of Jefferson.

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