Bamberg, Mrs. Matt, 1859-1904

BAMBERG, KASS

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/5/2010 at 00:19:51

THE DEATH ANGEL

Few sadder deaths have occurred in Alton than that of Mrs. Matt Bamberg who died Tuesday morning August ninth at two o'clock. Few women were better known in Alton than Mrs. Bamberg and few indeed had a larger circle of friends. She was a woman whom to know was to respect and love. Last winter when she first began to complain--and she was one who did not complain easily--there was deep regret among those who knew her and a general hope that she would recover. Her ailment is hard to define--being apparently a complication of ailments superinduced by change of life and resulting in serious nervous disorder and derangement of the stomach. A severe attack of spinal meningitis twelve years ago and a hereditary predisposition to cancer of the stomach--with which her father died--made her unable to meet the demands put upon her constitution by nature at this particular period. For the first few months there was hope and then four months ago she took to her bed. Again in the past few weeks she sat up and it was thought she might rally. Monday evening she began to sink and passed away in the night.

Deceased was born at St. Donatus Jackson county Iowa June twenty-seven 1859 and was therefore a little more than forty five years old. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kass and with them moved to Caledonia Minnesota where she was united in marriage to Matt Bamberg November sixteenth 1881. In the spring of the following year the young couple came to Alton where he entered the butchering business. They have since worked together to amass a competency which they were just ready to retire and enjoy. Mrs. Bamberg was an expert seamstress and her services were much in demand. She was a model wife and mother--a woman of the home--and had the honor of seeing at her bedside in the last hours three children of whom any woman might well be proud. They are Miss Anna--than whom no young lady in Alton is more esteemed and who was her mother's devoted companion through the months of illness--Lawrence on the verge of manhood and Julius aged fourteen. They with the bereaved father did all in their power to alleviate the suffering and prolong the days of their loved one and can find solace in the knowledge that it was God's will that she should come to him.

Besides her immediate family there mourn for her an aged mother--Mrs. Anna Kass of Alton, two brothers and six sisters. They are Peter Kass of Alton and John Kass of Currie Minnesota and the Mesdames Nic Delperdang, Al Schaul, Gertrude Henrich of Alton, Mrs. Hubert Bremier of Caledonia Minnesota, Mrs. Frank Young of Slayton Minnesota and Mrs. John Henrich of Lennox South Dakota. All but Mrs. Bremeier who was sick were present at the last--as were also her uncle Nic Weber of Slayton and her cousins Mike Kass, Mrs. John Kass and Mrs. Tony Helger of LeMars and Nic Graff and wife of Granville. Friends from abroad were Mesdames Tony and John Weidenfeller, Peter Arendt and Nic Schaul of LeMars and the families of John List and Thomas Berry of Granville. The funeral was held from St. Mary's church Thursday at nine and was largely attended. Very Rev. Brune conducted the services after which the remains were laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery near the church. God grant that we may all live as worthily and do our life work as well as she.

Source: Alton Democrat, Aug. 13, 1904.