Fuerste, Lena (Scharwatt) 1862-1948

FUERSTE, SCHARWATT, HAERING, LOGIER, DAVIES

Posted By: Ken Johnson (email)
Date: 8/6/2004 at 13:55:49

Thursday, 30 December 1948, Guttenberg Press, p1, c7:

DAUGHTER OF PIONEERS DIES DECEMBER 23
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Mrs. Lena Fuerste Is Stricken at Home of Daughter
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RITES SUNDAY
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Mrs. Lena Fuerste, member of a family which was among the first to settle in Clayton county, died Thursday, December 23, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Louise Davies, in Chicago. Mrs. Fuerste had gone to Chicago for a visit when she was stricken.

Mrs. Fuerste’s body was brought to Guttenberg for funeral services which were conducted at the Tuecke funeral home by G. W. Hunt. Burial was in the Guttenberg City cemetery.

Active and interested in affairs of the community almost until the day of her death, Mrs. Fuerste was born December 8, 1862, in a log cabin about seven miles west of Garnavillo, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Haering Scharwatt. She was an only child and while she still was an infant her father died.

A part of her early childhood was thereafter spent with her Grandmother Haering and with other maternal relatives. Several years later her mother married Dr. Logier of Garnavillo and she took the name of her stepfather.

Her later childhood was spent in Garnavillo and Guttenberg where she attended the local schools, later enrolling in the normal school at Platteville, Wisconsin. Following her graduation, she returned to Guttenberg where she taught in the local schools for seven years, from 1877 to 1885.

In the year 1885, she was married to Charles Fuerste of Guttenberg and to this union were born four children, two of whom died in early childhood. Mr. Fuerste died in 1917.

Mrs. Fuerste is survived by two children, Dr. Frederick Fuerste of Dubuque and Mrs. Louise Davies of Chicago, as well as by three grandchildren.

During her married life Mrs. Fuerste and her sister-in-law conducted a millinery store in Guttenberg. Following her retirement from that business, she continued to maintain an active interest in affairs of the community and was especially interested in the history of early day Guttenberg.