Thedinga, Marie L. 'Lou' 1849-1886

THEDINGA, GOFF

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 10/2/2019 at 14:56:04

At one o'clock yesterday morning, Marie Louise Thedinga, died after an illness of several months duration. Miss Thedinga was a daughter of the late J.H. Thedinga, and was born in this city, March 20th, 1849, being therefore over 37 years of age.

She received an education in the public schools of this city, and, subsequently, graduated from the Young Ladies' Seminary, at Rockford, Ill. Miss Thedinga was a young lady of lovely character and of a modest and unassuming nature. She lived a pure and noble life and her relatives and friends are shrouded in grief at her demise.

She is survived by her mother, two brothers, H.H., the hardware merchant of this city, and Henry, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and six sisters, Lena (Mrs. Wm. Goff), Lisette, Alvina, Clara, Anna and Etta.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, at 2 o'clock, at the residence of her mother, corner of Fifth and Bluff streets. Interment will be in Linwood.

~Dubuque Daily Herald, January 27, 1886

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Again has the hand of affliction - the blight of death - been laid heavily upon a large family circle and friends, that as one heart throbs with sorrow and regret, at the untimely death of Louise Thedinga which occurred on Tuesday morning at 1:15 o'clock.

For a week past it was generally known throughout the city that Miss Louise was dangerously ill, and that little hopes were entertained of her ultimate recovery, as the slight cold which she had contracted while engaged in the noble work of nursing a sister's child - little Edna May Goff (now deceased) - had settled on her lungs finally terminating into that dread disease, consumption, of which she died.

Again the silver chord is broken and only the echo of a young life replete with all the attributes of a noble womanhood, lingers with the tender cadence of a song that is sung, of a story that is told, the light and the life have faded to become only a cherished memory that will live in the hearts of love forevermore. She has laid down the burdens of life by the wayside, and the spirit of the good, nobly generous, ever self-sacrificing Louise Thedinga, has passed on to the fairer land of eternal day where the weary are at rest.

Miss Lou, as she was familiarly called, was the eldest daughter of the late J.H. Thedinga, for many years president of the German bank, also of our board of education. She was born and reared here, attending our public schools and afterwards an eastern ladies' academy, in which she graduated with high honors. She died in her 36th year, leaving an almost heart-broken mother, two brothers and six sisters.

The funeral service will be held at 2 o'clock p.m., to-day, from the family residence, corner of Fifth and Bluff streets. Burial at Linwood.

~Dubuque Daily Herald, January 28, 1886