Mrs. Mary (Mickler) Kempter 1839-1929

MICKLER, KEMPTER, TRITZ, RICARD, HOFFMAN

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 3/21/2015 at 13:12:45

MRS. MARY KEMPTER, 90,
OLDEST PERSON
IN BELLEVUE, DEAD
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Bellevue, Ia. April 21 – Special:
Mrs. Mary Kempter, 90, the oldest resident of Bellevue, died, at 6:45 o’clock on Easter Sunday morning. She has been an invalid confined to her bed and a wheel chair for over four years.

Mrs. Kempter was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mickler and was born in Austria on Oct. 20, 1839. In 1853, she came to this country, the ocean voyage consuming 63 days. The next spring she came up the Mississippi River and located at Galena, Ill., where her marriage to Godfrey Kempter of Bellevue in 1860 took place. The last 70 years of her life have been spent here.

Mrs. Kempter not only presided over her home but was a business woman. She assisted her husband, and after his death in 1890, her son, in the Kempter Furniture Co. and their funeral parlors. She was a member of the Catholic Church and the Rosary Sodality and was a promoter and active worker in all church and civic affairs.

Three children and her husband preceded her in death. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. M. J. Tritz, of Waterloo, Miss Anna Kempter at home, and Mrs. Josephine Ricard of Chicago; and two sons, John and Paul Kempter of Bellevue. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Nicholas Hoffman and Miss Louisa Mickler of Sioux Falls, S. Dakota; and four grandchildren.

The funeral will be held Tuesday morning at St. Joseph’s Church at 9 o’clock.

Dubuque Telegraph Herald April 1929