Mrs. Fred Richmann 1869-1903

RICHMANN, DEBNER, DIRCKS, MICHAEL, FOCKE

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Date: 4/14/2016 at 08:42:13

24 April 1903 - The Lowden News

Mrs. Fred C. Richmann was born June 23rd, 1869, at Estorf, Amt Nienburg Province Hanover, Germany. In early childhood she came with her parents and family to this country, settling near Lowden; and for many years they lived on the farm four and a half miles south of here. After her father died a few years ago, deceased still remained on the farm, together with her mother and her brother, Dietrich Debner and sister, until a year ago she was married to F. C. Richmann and has since resided with her husband on the home place of the Richmann's, a little over two miles southeast of Lowden, the head of which used to be William Richmann, who also died less than a year ago.

The happy union of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Richmann was blessed by the birth of a son two weeks ago, but the joyful event turned into sorrowing gloom, of critical illness of the young mother. With now and then a glimpse of hope for her recovery, entertained by her watchful friend, during her one week of sickness. The angel of death got the upper hand, and she departed life at half past six on the morning of April 19, leaving her baby and sorrowing husband; besides whom, her aged mother, one brother and six sisters survive to mourn her demise. Her sister, Mrs. Henry Dircks is and has been quite sick for some time, the result of several paralytic strokes.

The funeral of Mrs. Richmann was held Tuesday. Among the relatives present from the distance were Miss Lena Debner of Chicago, sister of deceased, and her sister Sophie and husband, Julius Michael, also of Chicago, Dietrich Focke of Lytton, Iowa, whose wife is also a sister of the departed, Emil Richmann and wife of Rock Island, Ills., Wm. Richmann and wife and Henry Dircks of Clarence.

The pall bearers were Henry Wilkening, Fred Kampmann, August Hinrichs, Wm. Rowold, Louis Conrad and Chas. Boettger. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Werning at the house, at the grave in the VanHorn cemetery and in the church.

Before the funeral services commenced at the house, the reverend gentleman baptized the infant son in the solemn presence of the dead mother and the throng of weeping friends. The funeral cortege was one of the largest we have ever seen. In solemn phalanx the long line of carriages kept winding their way over the hills from the house to the cemetery. After the burial, the funeral sermon was preached in the Evangelical church of Lowden. The church was filled, and extra seats had to be brought in. The text was 1 Kings 8, 12 etc. and the services were most impressive.

Wife of but a year and mother but only a week, bid adieu to all those near and dear to her on earth. By the divine will of providence she was so suddenly taken away in the very prime of life, out of a truly happy family circle, and led through the dark lane of death and the portals of the tomb. But above her silent grave her spirit dwells in a higher realm of love, leaving it to the supreme ruler of the universe, who does all things well, in his boundless mercy to heal the bleeding hearts of the sorrowing relatives whom she left behind.

"Yes! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain,
We mingle together in sunshine and rain.
And the smiles and the tears, the song and the dirge,
Still follow each other, like surge upon surge".