Iowa
Old Press
Iowa City Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co., Iowa
July 19, 1922
DEATH CLAIMS OCTOGENARIAN
Miss Catherine Schleicher, whose death was briefly recorded in
the Press-Citizen last evening, will be laid to rest
tomorrow in St. Joseph's cemetery. The services will be conducted
at 9 o'clock, at St. Mary's church, of which she was a devoted
member. Miss Schleicher was 80 years of age, on June 21st, having
been born on that day, in 1842, in Germany. Death came suddenly
Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, after a brief illness, as she was
stricken with paralysis, on Sunday night, July 16th. She was the
daughter of Michael Schleicher, a civil war veteran, and Margaret
Schleicher. During the last 41 years, she has made her home with
Mr. August Schindhelm, where she passed away. No immediate
relatives survive, as her only sister, a member of the Sisters of
Charity (Sister Mary William) passed away at the convent home in
Dubuque, about 30 years ago; and her half-sister, Mrs. August
Schindhelm, died in Iowa City, on January 30, 1921. Miss
Schliecher was a good woman of deeply religious nature, and the
friends of her younger days, the pioneers of the present, will
mourn her death long and deeply.
[transcribed by C.J.L., November 2004]