Katherine Bohrer Whalen (1870 - 1940)

WHALEN, BOHRER

Posted By: M. J. Fitzgerald (email)
Date: 10/11/2009 at 19:04:01

Katherine Bohrer Whalen died November 11, 1940. Obituary in the Allamakee Journal and Lansing Mirror of November 13, 1940 reads:

Mrs. Thomas Whalen Passes

Mrs. Catherine Whalen, lifelong resident of Allamakee county, passed away at her farm home in Lafayette township Monday after an illness of about 13 years, most of which time she was an invalid.

As Catherine Bohrer, the deceased was born in Lafayette township on February 28, 1870, and grew to womanhood on the homestead place at Thornton’s Corner. On April 11, 1899 she was married to Thomas Whalen and the couple made their home in Wexford vicinity where Mrs. Whalen spent the greater part of her life. She was preceded in death by her husband, and one daughter, Mary. Surviving to mourn are her two sons, Joseph and Robert Whalen; several nieces and nephews and a host of friends.

Mrs. Whalen was a true Christian mother, a kind neighbor and loving friend; one who bore her long suffering with never a complaint. She was a devout Catholic and died fortified by the last rites of mother Church which she loved so well.

The remains have been at the Pleumer and Hanson funeral home at Waukon and funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 10 o’clock at Immaculate Conception church, Wexford, where she was ever a devoted member. Her nephew, Rev. Father Raymond Bohrer of Bluffton, will read the Mass of Requiem and burial will be made in the cemetery nearby the church. May the soul of this good woman rest in peace.