Imlau, Bertha Louise (Herzmann) 1869 - 1941

IMLAU, HERZMANN, ROSENTHAL, ROLOFF, FREDRICK

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 3/10/2024 at 19:35:00

Clayton County Register, 07 Jan. 1942.

STAWBERRY POINT: Last week Monday evening about one o'clock while returning home from a young people's dance at the Masonic temple, Floyd Fredrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Fredrick, who lives north of Mrs. Imlau's residence, noticed the light burning and heard the radio. On entering his home he called to his father and told him. His father sent him back to see what the trouble was thinking perhaps the aged lady was ill or met with an accident.

On reaching the house Floyd looked in the window and saw her lying on the kitchen floor with wood strewn about her. Going back to his own home he told his father what he had seen and the two returned to the Imlau home and forced their way in. They found Mrs. Imlau dead and called authorities who decided she had been dead for several hours.

Bertha Louise Herzmann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Hertzmann, was born at Mimmerfried, East Prussia, Germany, on April 22, 1869. When two years of age she came here where she has since resided.

In Sept. 1886, she was united in marriage to William F. Imlau by the late Rev. H. G. Fuehr, pastor of the St. Sebald Lutheran church. The young couple stayed for a year and a half with Mr. Imlau's parents and assisted with the farm work. Then they established their own home on a farm south of Strawberry Point. They remained on this place for two years and then bought a farm of their own four miles Southwest of Strawberry Point. After 24 years they retired from the farm and purchased a home in town where they resided. Mr. Imlau died Nov. _ (looks like 5 or 6), 1940.

Surviving are the following children: Mrs. William (Minnie) Rosenthal of Canton, Minn., Mrs. Herman (Tillie) Roloff of Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Walter (Bertha) Fredrick and Frank Imlau, both of Strawberry Point; also 21 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. There is also one brother, Gus Hertzmann, of Arlington.

Funeral services were at Emanuel's Lutheran church at 11 o'clock a.m. Saturday, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Lawrence A. Stumme. Burial was made in the Strawberry Point cemetery.