Mrs. Katharine Wiese

WIESE, STUHR, BUHMANN, PETERSEN, TIHLE

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 7/22/2014 at 17:03:53

OBITUARY.

Mrs. Katharine Wiese, wife of Jochim Wiese, died at the family residence in Mt. Joy, Monday morning. The cause of death was cancer, for which an operation was performed last fall in Mercy hospital, but the disease was too far gone to be entirely eradicated. Mrs. Wiese, nee Stuhr, was born March 3, 1828, in Laboe in Probstein, and was married to Jochim Wiese in 1859. They came to American and settled in Mt. Joy in 1873. Her husband and five children survive to mourn her loss. The children are Mrs. Bertha Buhmann and Mrs. Anna Petersen, of Osmond, Neb., Mrs. Katherine Tihle, of Wilton in Clinton county, John Wiese, of Eldridge, and Henry Wiese, of Lost Spring,Wyo. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the family residence. Interment will be in Pine Hill cemetery.

Source: The Davenport Democrat and Leader, Davenport, IA 11 July 1893.