Catherine Elizabeth Fegtly Tucker 1846-1913

FEGTLY, RANDALL, KUHN, TUCKER

Posted By: Fred Rucker (email)
Date: 9/12/2006 at 19:47:58

Catherine Elizabeth Fegtly was the oldest of nine children of John Wesley and Martha Kuhn Fegtly. She was born in Wayne County Ohio on 6 Feb 1846, and moved to Van Buren in 1854 when her parents settled in Harrisburg Twp Utica. She studied at Howe Academy and IWU in Mt Pleasant, and was a school teacher in Van Buren. In the early 1880s, she left for Montana where she continued to teach until her marriage (1883) to James Tucker, an English carpenter. He died the following year. A son was born just months later who died when a teenager. She spent her later years in California. Throughout her life, she continued to visit Birmingham, to maintain her friendships there, and to submit articles to The Enterprise on her adventures out West. She died in Pasadena CA on 28 Oct 1913.

Source: Compiled from family notes. She is my great-grandaunt.

OBITUARY:

Victim Dies From Injury Due to Fall

Mrs. Kate Tucker Fails to Recover Following Plunge on Stones

Death shortly before noon today claimed Mrs. Kate E. Tucker, 86, who fell from a ladder yesterday afternoon at her home, 237 Penn street, while trimming her rose bushes. The long fall upon some stepping stones at the door of her house fractured the aged woman's skull and she never regained consciousness.

Mrs. Tucker had resided in Pasadena for more than forty years. She was the widow of John Tucker and had one son, James, who died some time ago. She and her son made their home for many years on Los Robles avenue near Washington street but a score of years ago she sold that property and moved to her Penn street home, where she was happy and contented working among the flowers she loved so well.

The police investigation of the accident showed that two Will sisters, who made their home with Mrs. Tucker, found the injured woman about five minutes after she had fallen from the ladder. Mrs. Tucker had, apparently, reached out too far to trim some climbing roses on the side of her home when the ladder slipped, pitching her head first to the ground.

Thomas Randall of Glendale is said to be Mrs. Tucker's closest relative. He is said to be a nephew but the authorities were not able to locate him as his aunt did not have his address.

Source: Unknown newspaper obituary (?? Star News Oct 28, 1913)

OBITUARY:

SERVICES PLANNED FOR FALL VICTIM

Mrs. Kate Tucker's Death Ended Happy Career

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow from the chapel of C. Hal Reynolds and John W. Eberle, 825 East Orange Grove avenue, for Mrs. Kate Tucker, 86, who died Wednesday as the result of injuries sustained when she fell from a ladder while trimming rose bushes.

Mrs. Tucker was born in Ohio, February 6, 1846, but moved to Iowa at the age of 12 years. From there she went to Butte, Mont., where she was a teacher prior to her marriage to John Tucker. She came to California forty years ago.

A thorough student and reader, Mrs. Tucker had an unfailing memory, and her unselfishness and loyalty to her friends were among her outstanding characteristics. Although given to reminisce ting about the happy years of the past. She was modern in her viewpoint and interested in everything happening in the present.

Source: Unknown newspaper clipping (1913).

OBITUARY:

Love for Beautiful Roses Brings Death to Aged Woman

Climbing Ladder to Secure Bouquet, She Falls And Fractures Skull

There is a subtle lure that lies in the heart of a rose. A hypnosis in the bursting bud.

Mrs. Tucker knew. She was a real lover of the rose. Not that she loved other flowers less.

Daily, despite her 83 years, Mrs. Kate E. Tucker went into the garden of her home at 237 Penn street, Pasadena, to cut a bouquet of roses.

She sent out to cut a bunch of roses for the breakfast table. Higher on the trellis grew some beauties.

Mrs. Tucker climbed a ladder. A misstep. She fell.

She died today of skull fracture in Pasadena Hospital. Around her are banked heaps and heaps of…roses.

Source: Unknown newspaper Clipping (1913)