Elizabeth Lammers WIlkens Happe

LAMMERS, HAPPE, WILKINS

Posted By: Regina (Wilkens) Yuill (email)
Date: 4/22/2015 at 18:08:41

The Carroll Times, Carroll, Iowa
Thursday, 8 October 1914
Page 1 Column 2

Mrs. Henry Happe Dies
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Passes Away at Home in Carroll Sunday Morning.

Buried on Wednesday.
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Mrs. Henry Happe died at about 4:30 on Sunday morning, October 4, at her home at the corner of Second and South Carroll Streets. The cause of death was Brights’ disease, from which she has been suffering since last February. During the winter she had an attack of grip and this with the fright she sustained when fire destroyed a barn on the premises, contributed to the illness which ended in death the first of this week.

Mrs. Happe, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Lammers, was born at Hazel Green, Wisconsin, May 13, 1849, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhardt Lammers. She passed her earlier years in her native home and in 1869 came with her parents to Carroll county settling in Kniest township. Here two years later she was married to H. J. Wilkens and they moved to Carroll where she has ever since made her home. Eight children were born to this union, one of whom, (Anna) died in infancy. The seven who are living are all residents of this county, their names being: Mary, (Mrs. Henry Neuberger), Joseph Wilkens, Emma, (Mrs. Steve Vanderloo), John, Henry and Frank Wilkens. The husband and father died in 1889 and on May 29, 1892, she was married a second time to Henry Happe, who survives her. No children were born to this union.

Two brothers of the deceased and two sisters survive her. The brothers are Garret Lammers, of Breda, and Henry Lammers, of Wall Lake. The sisters are Mrs. Anna Tabold and Mrs. Mary Teagle, both of Marshall, Minnesota. These were all present at the funeral that took place on Wednesday morning at S. S. Peter and Paul’s Church, of which deceased had been a faithful and devoted member.

The deceased was highly esteemed in the community where she has lived for more than forty years.

Notes:
(seventh child not listed above is her son George Henry)

{Bright’s disease is a generic term for acute and chronic disease of the kidneys. It is usually associated with dropsy and albuminuria. Known also as nephrits.}
{Grip -- is influenza. Also known as a very bad case of the flu}

Elizabeth Lammers Wilkens Happe
 

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