Weidenfeller, Miss Kathrine M. ("Katie") 1896-1918

WEIDENFELLER, ITTENSOHN

Posted By: Janet Brown, volunteer (email)
Date: 10/16/2013 at 15:14:16

From the Thursday, December 26, 1918 Akron-Register Tribune:

Brief mention was made in the column of this paper last week of the death of Miss Katie Weidenfeller on Monday, December 16, 1918, after an illness of less than a week, of pneumonia, aped 22 years, 11 months and 6 days.

Kathrine Mary Weidenfeller was born at Hawarden, Iowa, January 10, 1896, and came with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Weidenfeller, to Akron when she was about six months of age, and this has since remained the family home. During her girlhood she attended the public and parochial schools of this city, graduated from the 8th grade, and attended high school two years, then she gave up school life to assist her mother in the home. Always the embodiment of cheerfulness and geniality, she radiated perpetual sunshine in the home she loved so dearly, ever happy and never tiring in the performance of some kind and helpful deed or service in the family circle. Few people are naturally endowed with the sweet and gentle personality that Katie possessed, and it is a matter of deep regret on the part of both relatives and many friends that a life such us hers could not have attained to full maturity in its purity and beauty, but her memory will ever remain a cherished heritage in the hearts and minds of those who knew and loved her so well.

Her presence in the home will be sadly missed, where there are left to mourn her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Weidenfeller, four sisters and two brothers — Josephine, Anthony, Annie. Karl, Mary and Clara. One brother died in Hawarden where he was born on August 18, 1892. Katie was a devout member of and for a number of years sang in the choir of the Church of St. Patrick.

In Loving Remembrance of Katie Weidenfeller ~ Died Dec. 16, 1918

A precious imp from us is gone,
A voice we loved is stilled. A place is vacant in the home
Which never can be filled. God, In His wisdom, has recalled
The boon her love had given. And though her body slumbers here,
Her soul is safe in heaven.

We miss you from our home, dear Katie.
We miss you from your place; A shadow o'er our life is cast,
We miss the sunshine of thy face. We miss thy kind and willing hand.
Thy fond and earnest care, Our home is dark without you, Katie,
We miss you everywhere.

Your gentle voice now is hushed. Your warm, true heart is still.
And on thy sweet and innocent brow is resting death's cold chill.
Thy hands are crossed upon thy breast,
We have, kissed thy loving brow, And In our aching hearts we know
We have no Katie now.

Farewell, our love, your couch of pain
Is changed into a throne. Your few days sorrows well endured
Were mercies to you shown. Yet blame, us not, if every year
Till death exacts his due, A day we'll keep In sacred grief
In memory, dear Katie, of you.

Oh! who could tears of fondness then to be our love denied?
When that sad day recalls the time that our dear Katie died.

-J. M.

Poster's note: Katie was the daughter of Jacobena (Ittensohn) and Aloysius Weidenfeller.