Louise Wilkening 1857-1903

WILKENING, MUELLER, HARTWIG

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 4/15/2016 at 20:00:47

6 March 1903 - The Lowden News

Mrs. Louise Wilkening, wife of Henry Wilkening, died at her home five miles south of Lowden, Sunday morning, March 1st, of consumption. Funeral occurred on the 3rd. The solemn services were held in the Evangelical church by Rev. Werning whose impressive sermon was most reverently listened to by a vast throng of people, relatives and friends of the deceased had come from far and near to bring their last tribute of respect. The remains were laid to rest in the Van Horn cemetery.

Deceased was born at Lagrange, Ill. Dec. 30th, 1857, came to Iowa with her parents in 1871, was married to Henry Wilkening, March 5th, 1880. During these twenty three years of happy family life there were born to this union five children, four sons and one daughter who now, with their father and with two brothers and three sisters of the deceased survive to mourn her untimely demise. Julius, their oldest son, a young man of 22 years of age, is also quite sick with lung fever, he was just able to bid the departed farewell at their home, but was not enabled to attend the funeral any further, and his sickness is adding additional sorrow for the other members of the family. They have the sympathy of the entire community. Mrs. Wilkening was a daughter of Louis Mueller. Her father died about four years ago and her mother departed life fourteen years ago, one year after that her brother, Louis Mueller, died in the prime of life and a little over four years ago her sister Emma, wife of Wm. Hartwig died, also yet young in years, and exactly to the date, three years before Mrs. Wilkenings's funeral, on March 3rd, occurred the funeral of another one of her brothers, namely, Fred Mueller, who together with three of his children were taken by the diphtheria fiend, another sister died in infancy, making a continuous solemn line in the valley of the shadow of death.

"Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not" --Job 14:1-2