Emma Ringheim (1869-1907)

RINGHEIM, FITCHPATRICK

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/20/2017 at 23:10:22

From Nevada Representative February 11, 1907

OBITUARY

EMMA RINGHEIM

The body of Miss Emma Ringheim arrived this morning from Payette, Idaho, where she died, and the funeral was held this forenoon at the home of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Fitchpatrick. The service were conducted by Rev. J. O. Simon and were simple and appropriate. There were numerous floral offering both from friends here and from friends at Payette, and a considerable company of old-time friends were present for the last rites. The interment was in the Nevada cemetery.

Emma Ringheim was the second daughter of the late I. A. Ringheim and his first wife and was born at Nevada, November 27, 1869. She died at Payette, Idaho, February 5, 1907, aged 37 years, 2 months and 8 days. She was reared in Nevada and went from here to Iowa College at Grinnell, where she graduated in 1892. After her graduation she taught for one year in the Lutheran college at Madison, Minnesota, and for three years in the public schools of Minneapolis begin particularly successful in the latter place. After this she went to Germany, where she remained, with one visit home for a few months, for eight years being for the most part engaged in the study of German literature but spending her vacations in travel over the most Europe from North Cape to southern Italy. She returned from Germany in the fall of 1905 and divided her time for several months between ther home of her sister, Mrs. Fitchpatrick, here, and the Ringheim farm near Radcliffe in Hardin county. Last fall she went to Payette to teach and she continued in the service there until a few days before her death. It has been supposed that she was out of school on account of her health; but it is now understood that she had only been out one day before she broke down a few days before her death. She had, however, found that she could not continue her work in that climate, and she had resigned her position and had arranged to leave on last Saturday for California to be with the other members of the family there; but this determination she appears to have reached too late. She was a member of the P. E. O. order and also a chapter of the order at Payette, and the member of that chapter were friends who especially looked after he in her last illness and who saw to the shipment of her body to her old home and friends.

She had written home that her work and surroundings, aside from the climate, were congenial. She boarded in the family of a physician who was an old college friend and went from Oskaloosa, and there were many Iowa people among her fellow teachers and now acquaintances. She was a woman of exceptional talent in many ways and had enjoyed exceptional opportunities for cultivating the same.