Schulze, Henry 1848 – 1905

SCHULZE, RASTETTER, PLUMMER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:43

Source: Decorah Republican Oct. 26, 1905 P2 C3

SCHULZE.
Without a moment’s warning that the hand of death was upon him, Henry Schulze, one of Decorah’s best known citizens, passed to his reward on Saturday last at Mabel, Minn., where he was engaged in building operations. Whether a stroke of apoplexy or of heart failure we have not learned, but death followed the wheeling of a barrow-load of mortar up to the working stage of a structure on which Mr. Schulze and his men were doing the brick work. When the noon hour arrived the tender had loaded the wheel barrow and moved it part way to the point desired, but as the men were leaving their work for dinner he joined them. On returning from dinner Mr. Schulze wheeled the barrow up, emptied it and returned with it to the mixing box. But two or three minutes after his son George glanced down and saw his father lying on the ground. Running down to him he found him dead.
Word was sent to Decorah at once, and the news not only shocked our citizens, but ensured general expression of sorrow and sympathy for the family.
Born at Ostedt, Hanover, Germany, on March 11th, 1848, Mr. Schulze came to America in 1868 and soon after took up a residence in Decorah that has been marked by a high type of citizenship, a steadfast devotion to his friends and family and an honesty as a workman that earned a just reward not only in the high esteem of his fellow citizens but in a territory that of late years has grown to wider proportions as his capacity as a contractor became better known. Back of this, and what may be considered as the foundation of his character was a firm adherence to the religion of his mother. When he left the old country he brought a Bible which was a present from her, and in his leisure hours it was his habit to read in this daily. Seldom the winter passed that he did not read it through once. To Mr. Schulze possibly more than to any other single person, was due the keeping up for many years of the German Lutheran congregation in Decorah and when it became smaller and smaller his religious faith did not lag.
In 1872 Mr. Schulze was married to Mary Rastetter, who with their sons George and Will, and their daughters, Mrs. Earl Plummer of Forest City, Lizzie and Marjorie, survive.
The Funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock at the house, Rev. K. Seehuus of Locust and Rev. M. Willett officiating. A large number of citizens attested by their presence their sympathy for those so suddenly bereft of a loving husband and father, and the high regard in which he was held in the community.

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