GITCH, Matilda Louise (Kammeyer) 1886-1929

GITCH, KAMMEYER, MOEHLER, WEITENHAGEN, PANTKE

Posted By: Deb Van Sant (email)
Date: 11/30/2008 at 19:30:23

Mrs August Gitch Dead at F'Burg

Passes Away at Age of Nearly 43 Years Leaving Husband and Nine Children, Loss Can Never Be Compensated.

Fredericksburg Corr- Mrs Mathilda Louise Gitch died at her home three miles southeast of Fredericksburg on Wednesday, January 2, 1929 of tuberculosis with which she has been weakened over a period of five years.

The deceased, Miss Mathilda Louise Kammeyer, was born April 8, 1886 at Willow Springs, Illinois, a daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Kammeyer, Sr.

While in her early youth the family came to Chickasaw County and on February 6, 1908, she was married at the Lutheran Church in Boyd to Mr August Gitch.

To these fine people nine children were born, all of whom remain to bless the home made sacred by so wonderful a mother. They are Norma, Paul, Laurena, Arnold, Raymond, Alvin, Helen, Earl and Louis.

Her husband and all her children survive her. Also her mother, Mrs Dorothea Kammeyer, and five brothers, Herman, Louie, William, Henry and Fred and four sisters, Mrs Bertha Mohler, Mrs. Mary Weitenhagen, Alma Kammeyer and Mrs Edna Pantke.

The deceased was a remarkably fine woman and has reared a splendid family of children. During the past five years she has been an invalid, yet she continued to influence and guide these children to the end. The night before her death her youngest child said his bed-time prayer as has been the family custom.

Mrs Gitch was a devoted member of the Lutheran church and brought her family up in her faith. Her going out from this fine home is indeed a sorrowful loss.

We are indebted to her pastor, Rev Durr, who gave us this life history and whose text of funeral sermon was taken from John 14, 1-3: "Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's House are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto Myself that where I am, there ye may be also."

Her funeral was held from St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fredericksburg on Saturday, January 5, 1929 and was conducted by Rev. Durr.

Interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery.

To her husband and children, to her mother and brothers and sisters, and to other relatives and sorrowing ones we extend sincere sympathy.

Those from away to attend the funeral were: Herman Kammeyer, Hinsdale, Ill; Louie Kammeyer, Boyd; Wm. Kammeyer, New Hampton; Alma Kammeyer, Hinsdale, Ill; Mrs Edna Pantke, Hinsdale, Illinois and Miss Mohler, Hinsdale, Illinois.