Obituary Record

Agnes Rethwisch
Died on 1/17/1904
Buried in Fort Calhoun Cemetery

#1-20 Jan., 1904 - The Pilot - Agnes Rethwisch

Miss Agnes Rethwisch of Calhoun died Sunday of quick consumption. She was sick less than four months. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon at three o’clock. Miss Agnes, since her mother died three years ago, has been keeping house for her aged father at the old home in Calhoun. She leaves four sisters and two brothers, all married. Mrs. Minnie Paulson, Mrs. Anna Schluns and Adolph at Coral, Nebraska. Mrs. Amelia Marxen at Avoca, Ia., Mrs. Chris Rohwer of Soberly, Mo. and Henry of Calhoun. The entire family was present at the funeral. The Pilot joins the many friends of the family in extending sympathy in their bereavement.

#2-27 Jan., 1904 - The Pilot - Agnes Rethwisch

Miss Agnes Rethwisch, who was buried in our Ft. Calhoun cemetery the 19th of January, was one of the noblest young ladies that lived in Washington county. Ever since she was old enough to leave school, her aged parents were her first care. Her sisters married, but she worked on, and when not needed at home carried all her surplus earnings to her parents till the death of her mother two years ago when she took charge of the house for her father, and they were an ideal couple, the quiet industrious grey haired old man and the daughter apparently twice as strong, but ever since the watchful care of her dying mother, she had been slowly giving way, suffering quietly and painfully from that dreaded disease consumption. She was born in Germany 26 years ago, and came to Ft. Calhoun with her parents in 1884. The funeral was conducted by the Blair Lutheran minister. The Congregational church was crowded to the utmost and the flowers beautiful.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

Find a Grave Memorial # 1817634

Printed in the Blair Pilot on 1/27/1904


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