Schneider, Mrs.Philip (Caroline)1866-1912

SCHNEIDER, HULSEBUS, MOELLER, KOENIG, ZIMMERMAN

Posted By: Janet M Schuldt (email)
Date: 4/25/2017 at 13:59:55

LeMars Semi-Weekly, LeMars, Plymouth, Iowa Tuesday, October 22, 1912

MANY MOURN HER LOSS
MRS. PHILIP SCHNEIDER DIES IN HOSPITAL AT MERRILL

NEWS A GREAT SHOCK TO FRIENDS

She Had Been Sick For Three Weeks but no Serious Consequence Were Apprehended by Relatives - Funeral Held at Melbourne Yesterday

Mrs. Schneider, wife of Philip Schneider, residing north of Hilton, died at the hospital in Merrill on Saturday morning following an operation for internal trouble which was performed by attending physicians on Wednesday. She had been ill for three weeks but her condition had been such that no serious results were apprehended and the news of her death came as a tremendous shock to her family and large circle of relatives and friends and caused widespread grief among them.

Mrs. Schneider was forty-six years of age at the time of her death and had practically spent all her life in this vicinity. Her maiden name was Caroline Virginia Koenig. She was the eldest daughter of Mr, and Mrs J. G. Koenig, pioneer residents of this city and was born in the city of Baltimore, Maryland on June 21, 1866. When she was four years old her parents moved to Plymouth county and lived for ten years o a farm in Hungerford township and then came to LeMars, which ha been their home since. Caroline Koenig attended school in the county and subsequently the LeMars high school. In December 1866 she was reunited in marriage with Philip Schneider of Hinton and for twenty-six yeas they have lived in wedded happiness sharing each other’s joys and sorrows, happy in the rearing of their children and in the prosperity of their useful farming occupations.

Besides the bereaved husband the deceased leaves six children who will miss a loving mother's devoted care and attention, some of them at an age when they most need a parent's solicitous and and judicious guiding hand, The children are Mrs, Irving Taylor of Sioux City, Rudolph, Lucille, Robert, Ralph, and Burdette still in the house nest. Mrs Schneider is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J G Koenig of this city, and a number of brothers and sisters who are Mrs. Will Zimmerman, J G. Koenig, Walter Koenig of Le Mars, Mrs, H, C, Moeller, Des Moines; Herbert Koenig of Vancouver, British Columbia; Mrs, Gee Hulsebus if San Francisco, Calif.

The funeral was help yesterday afternoon at Melbourne in the old church, where the woman, now cold i death surrounded by grieving friends first lisped praises when a little to the God after whose teachings she patterned her way of thinking and living. She was a member of the United Evangelical church since childhood.

By the death of Mrs Philip Schneider many homes are made sad. She was a devoted wife and mother, a true helpmate to her husband, constant in well doing and striving to make all those with whom she came in contact happy and comfortable. Her life was well spent and the world is better for just such mothers and daughters. The eldest daughter in a large family she was looked up to and devotedly admired by her brothers and sisters whose earliest recollection are of her sweet sisterly kindness and sympathy ad the ties formed in happy childhood which last as long as time itself.

Mrs. Schneider was well known in as large circle of friends, many of whom knew her from birth and their hearts too are full of sorrow and they sympathize deeply with the bereaved relatives.