The Reedsburg Times Press
Reedsburg, Wisconsin
Thursday, September 8, 1960, 
Ex-City Resident
Dies in Beaver Dam
Mrs. Lydia Dierken, 81, a former Reedsburg resident, died last Thursday in a Beaver Dam hospital.
Mrs. Dierken was born Lydia Black in the town of Westfield on Aug. 13, 1879, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Black. When she was 4 the family moved to Reedsburg, where she lived until 1928. In 1901, she was married to the late William Dierken, a former city treasurer of Reedsburg.
She moved to St. Paul in 1928, and she operated a beauty parlor and school of beauty culture there until last year when she went to live with a daughter, Mrs. A. E. Wichman, at Beaver Dam. 
Mrs. Dierken was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Order of the Amaranth, White Shrine, the Pythian Sisters, and Faith Lutheran church, St. Paul.
Surviving besides Mrs. Wichman are another daughter, Mrs. Myron Boylson, Tuscola, Ill.; five grandchildren; and a brother, George Black, Burlington. 
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the First Congregational church, Fox Lake, and burial was in Oakwood cemetery, Beaver Dam. Officiating at the services was Mrs. Dierken’s son-in-law, Rev. A. E. Wichman.

Contributed by Darlene Penisten