Reinecke, Emma (Scholz) died 1922

REINECKE, SCHOLZ

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 8/5/2021 at 20:31:25

Elkader Register, Thur., 04 May 1922.

A very dark veil of sadness was cast over our town last Friday when word passed from one to another stating that Mrs. W. F. Reinecke had passed away in the Mercy Hospital at Iowa City. She submitted to an operation, Tuesday, for gall stones one large one being removed and was getting along as could be expected until a short time before her death which was caused by blood clot on the brain. Although not well for a number of years she was up and around most of the time bearing her sufferings patiently and thinking of others trouble and was ever ready to help them. Mrs. Reinecke, nee Miss Emma Scholz was born at Guttenberg, Iowa, and spent most of her girlhood days there. In 1897, she was united in marriage to William F. Reinecke. Two sons blessed this union. When Mr. Reinecke was our county treasurer she served as his deputy and was a faithful and helpful wife. During her years she has made her home here so gentle was her manner and so amiable her conduct that all who knew her, knew her to love her, and her loving disposition care for her many friends whose lives were bound to her life by such a strong cord as cannot be broken asunded in this world but lead to that brighter and better world above where there will be no more parting and no sorrow. The parting indeed is hard to bear. The husband's and son's grief is great, but let them be comforted with the thought that their loss is heaven's gain and while she can never more come to them - they, if faithful and obedient to the God whom she served can go to her. Seldom, yes very seldom do we find a character so universally loved as was she. Such good women never die - but like Christ said of Mary , "That what this woman hath done shall be told for a memorial to her." The casket covered with so many beautiful flowers were an emblem of immortality of our departed friend and the writer who so well knew her can truly say:

She's gone to the land where the
careworn and weary
Enjoy sweet rapture of sacred repose,
She has quitted forever this
wilderness dreary
And has bid farewell to time
and its foes,
While on earth she was loved and
friends deeply deplore her
But why should a murmur escape
from our breast?
If you asked how she lived,
she set heaven before her
And if asked how she died,
in the faith of the blessed.

She leaves to mourn her loss, her heart broken husband, two sons, Lorenz who is working in Glen Haven, Wis., and Herald, a S.U.I. student, also her parents, three sisters and two brothers to which we may add a number of relatives and an innumerable host of friends - with all of whom - we want to sympathize in this their hour of bereavement. She was a faithful member of the O.E.S. Lodge, the Recreation Club and the Thimbles. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the home of her parents in Guttenberg conducted by Rev. Maxwell, pastor of the Congregational church.

The remains were accompanied by a large procession to their last resting place in the Guttenberg cemetery and the last tribute of respect was shown in the gently laying her away in the silent city of the dead.