Wabasha County Herald; April 13, 1916
Surrounded by all her children, Mrs. Elizabeth Budde answered the final summons at her home in this city about 3 o’clock Tuesday morning, April 11. Mrs. Budde had been in feeble health for eight months with the infirmities of age, and gradually sank into the Valley of the Shadow.

The funeral will be held Friday morning, with solemn requiem high mass at 10 o’clock at St. Felix church. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Wurst will be the celebrant. The remains will be laid to rest in St. Felix cemetery beside those of the husband, who preceded his wife to the grave on May 9, 1914.

Mrs. Budde, nee Elizabeth Vosberg, was born in Hanover, Germany, Nov. 23, 1841, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Vosberg. She came to America as a child three years old and grew to maidenhood in Wisconsin. Her marriage to Gerhard Budde took place at Sinsinwa Mound, Grant County Wisconsin on July 17, 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Budde came to Read’s Landing on their wedding trip, and hike through the woods and tangled underbrush to the site of their rather primitive new home in Glasgow constituted their honeymoon. For eleven years a log house was their residence, and the ordinary comforts of life were to a large extent unknown to them. Hard work under most trying circumstances was their daily task, but they toiled on with a strong heart and an undaunted will and as the years rolled on the pioneer cabin gave place to a modern home and a substantial competency was the family’s share. Mr. and Mrs. Budde retired from the farm in 1905 and moved to Wabasha. The observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1910.

The following sons and daughters survive: George H. Budde, Wabasha; Mrs. T. J. Toben, Duluth; Mrs. H. B. Kennebeck, Belen, New Mexico; Mrs. Clem Welp, Plainview; Mrs. Philip Connors of Saskatoon, Canada; Frank Budde of Pepin township; Tony, Clara, Dora, and Joseph Budde, who reside on the home place in Glasgow, and Tena, who has been at home with her mother. Mrs. Budde also leaves two brothers and one sister residing at Dubuque, Iowa, twenty-two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Budde came from that good and whole-souled Hanoverian peasantry which contributed so many splendid settlers to this section of the country. She was deeply religious, with a serious aim in life, devoted to the best interests of her home and her family. To friends and neighbors she was kind and hospitable, always ready and willing to lend a helping hand. Her passing has not only left a vacant niche in the family circle, but also fills the hearts of the many who knew her well with genuine regret.