Cathrine Rettinger 1840-1915

RETTINGER, YOST, WEIERMUELLER, MOELLERMAN, TROENDLE, RIPBERGER WEIPERT BRACE

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Date: 10/28/2010 at 19:05:53

Mrs. Rettinger at Rest

One by one the pioneers are slowly but surely being gathered to the Fathers. The last to respond to the call of the Grim Reaper was Mrs. Cathrine Rettinger, relict of the late Henry Rettinger, who passed away at her home on the Park, Friday morning, at 4 o'clock, after an extended illness with cancer of the stomach.
Deceased was born February 16, 1840, in Koch, Baden, Germany, and emigrated to America with her parents at the age of seven years, settling in Illinois, where, on Feb 16, 1860, she was married. Mr. and Mrs. Rettinger came to Allamakee in the early days, before the advent of the railroad, and for many years lived on the farm in this township bearing their name.
Ten children were born to them, all but one, Charles, who died in 1886, surviving and being present at the funeral, as follows: John, and daughter, Claremont, Minn., Mrs. Lizzie Yost, Stillwater, Minn., Mrs. Ellen Weiermueller, Leeds, N.D. Mrs. Susan Moellerman, Lansing, Henry R., Lansing, Samuel R., and wife, Long Lake, Minn., Frank R. and wife Rugby, N.D. Other relatives present were : Joe Ripberger (brother) and daughter Katie of Oregon, Ills., Chas Ripberger and son Willie of Ackley, Iowa; Henry Ripberger of Freeport, Ills., Ellen Weipert (sister) of this city, and Ralph Brace of Ridott, Ills.
The funeral took place from the Catholic church Monday morning, at 9 o'clock, interment in Oak Hill beside her husband who preceded her in death ten years ago. The very large attendance of relatives neighbors, and friends gave silent but oloquent tribute to the memory of a good Christian, wife and mother gone to her reward.

Allamakee Journal
Wed 20 Oct 1915
Page 2 Column 4
Vol XLVIV No 51