Louise Mary Straub, 1942 Obituary

REINEKE, STRAUB

Posted By: David Reineke (email)
Date: 9/3/2009 at 19:00:03

From: Carroll Daily Times Herald, Friday, September 4, 1942

Miss Louise Mary Straub Passes Away

Funeral Rites Will Be Monday Morning at SS. Peter and Paul Church

After a lingering illness, death came to Miss Louise Mary Straub at her home, 127 South Main street, at 11 o’clock Thursday night. Miss Straub had been in declining health since January and bedfast since the middle of May.

Funeral rites are to be at 9:30 Monday morning at SS. Peter and Paul’s Church. Burial will be in the family lot in the parish cemetery.

The body is being returned this afternoon from the Dietrich Funeral Home to the family residence, to repose there until the hour of the services.

Miss Straub had spent her entire life in Carroll and vicinity. She was born here Oct. 4, 1889, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Anton Straub, who were pioneer residents of this county.

After attending SS. Peter and Paul’s school, she lived on the old homestead one mile south and one mile east of Carroll, where her parents had located in the early eighties. Since her mother’s death, on July 30, 1935, she had resided in the family home on South Main street, where she lived with her brother, Andrew Straub, and her sisters, Anna and Ida.

Besides her brother and two sisters, she leaves two half-sisters, Mrs. Joe Reineke and Mrs. Fred Reineke, both of Randolph, Neb.

Her father passed away July 28, 1920. She was also preceded in death by three brothers, Joseph, who was nine years old, and two who died in infancy, one sister, who was six months old, and one half-sister, Mrs. Mary Lange, of Randolph, Neb., who passed away in 1918.

Miss Straub was a member of SS. Peter and Paul’s church.