Kirkbaum, Charlotte (Long) 1874-1898

KIRKBAUM, LONG

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Date: 5/4/2005 at 08:46:42

The Newton (IA) Record Thursday, September 15, 1898
Brought to the Old Home for Burial
Kirkbaum, Charlotte (Long)

Over the wires came a telegram last Sunday morning, which carried the deepest sorrow into a happy home and filled with anguish the hearts of parents and friends. The message briefly announced the dangerous illness of Mrs. Lottie Krickbaum at her home in Norfolk, Neb. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Long, feared the worst and the afternoon train bore the anxious father and sister, Miss Cora, westward, hoping that they might reach the bedside of their loved one before it was too late. But they were doomed to sad disappointment; when they arrived about noon, on Monday, they found that Lottie had already passed away. She had been ill for about ten days, but her condition was not considered alarming until within a day or two of her death.

Miss Lottie A. Long was born in this city on the 25th day of June 1874, and was but a little over twenty-four years of age at the time of her death. Her home had always been here until on the 3rd of March 1897, when she was married to Mr. Loring Krickbaum, and she went out of the home of her childhood a happy bride, to make a new home with her young husband in Nebraska. They began life’s voyage together under bright skies without a cloud to cast a shadow over their perfect happiness. Their cup of joy seemed full and complete when only a few weeks ago they secured a cottage of their own and for the first time went to housekeeping themselves, little dreaming that death would soon enter and lay waste all the fond hopes and bright air castles that love had wrought in that little home.

Lottie was the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Long, and of a family of seven children hers is the first death that has occurred. Being the youngest, the love of parents, brothers and sisters was especially centered in her, and her death is a crushing blow to them.

The remains accompanied by the father and only sister, and by the grief stricken husband, arrived in Newton at 10:37 Tuesday night and were taken to the home which she left so full of happiness only a few weeks ago when she returned for her first visit after her marriage. The funeral services were held there at 2 o’clock yesterday, conducted by Rev. J. D. Simon, pastor of the Lutheran Church, of which Lottie had been a member for several years. A large number of friends were present, and the services were very sad but beautiful and impressive. The sorrowing friends have the tenderest sympathy of the entire community in their great affliction.

Originally submitted on Sun Sep 1 10:05:23 2002