Erichsen, Catherine D. 1866-1934

ERICHSEN, JACOBSEN, MEHLHOP, NITZSCHKE, MAASS

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 6/22/2011 at 17:32:24

Aged Remsen Lady Called by Death
Mrs. Detlef Erichsen Passes Away After Lingering Sickness
Death took another pioneer resident of Remsen and community when Mrs. Detlef Erichsen passed away at her home after a lingering sickness lasting more than a year. Her death was due to anemia and other complications. She was 67 years old and is survived by her sorrowing husband, five children and one brother. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Erichsen began to fall in health about a year ago but since then she was able to be up and about her household duties until a month ago. She suddenly took violently sick and spent three weeks in a hospital in Le Mars and later was home for three weeks after which she suffered a relapse and the end came at 4:20 o’clock Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Erichsen was born September 29, 1866 in Schleswig-Holstein Germany and came to this country with a brother in 1885. The young people settled on a farm south of Remsen for a while and after a year she was united in marriage to Detlef Erichsen, then a resident of this vicinity and who came to this country from Germany. Their marriage was performed in Christ Lutheran church on March 24, 1886, and soon after their marriage the couple settled on a farm south of town, which they purchased and which they occupied for 25 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Erichsen retired 23 years ago and moved into Remsen, building a splendid home and living here ever since. They occupied their own home ever since coming to town and have enjoyed the fruits of their labors ever since.
Mrs. Erichsen was one of the best Christian women of this community and one of the most highly respected. She was a life-long member of the Lutheran congregation here and one of the staunch members of the Ladies’ Aid society. She was a loving wife and mother and a woman who won the respect and love of all her acquaintances through her admirable traits of character and her many admirable ways.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock with a large attendance as a memento of the high esteem in which the deceased was held in this community. The pall bearers were Peter Rann, Wm Siefke, Henry Falke, W.G. Sievers, E.H. Spiecker and Elmer Ohlendorf.
Surviving besides the sorrowing husband, are the following children: Mrs. Henry Mehlhop, August Erichsen, Herman Erichsen, Mrs. Ed Nitzschke and Mrs. Frank Maass.
The funeral services were largely attended as a mark of the esteem of high regard in which the deceased held in this community. Those from a distance who came to pay their last respects to the deceased were: Mr. and Mrs. Asmus Jacobsen and daughter Lucille, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Mundt and Mr. and Mrs. Art Dubbe of Sioux Falls, S.D.; Mr. and Mrs. Scott Eringer of Le Mars; Mr. and Mrs. Emil Jacobsen of Rock Valley; Mrs. John Clausen and son Harold of Gladbrook, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. John Hansen of Kingsley and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clausen Jr. of Holstein - Remsen Bell-Enterprise, August 16, 1934, page 1.