Mother: Maria Mescher
Brothers: Franz, Anton, Joseph
Sister: Elisabeth & Franz Bergman
Rosa Puthoff, 28, of Maria Stein, was suddenly stricken with heart trouble while conversing with her mother shorty after supper last Sunday evening and died before medical aid could be summoned.*
The young woman was apparently in good health and had eaten a hearty supper. Her death came as an awful shock to the family and the people of the community. She was the daughter of Mrs. Dedrich Puthoff and the mother, one sister, and three brothers survive. Funeral services at Maria Stein Church yesterday morning.
- Two, but possibly more, of Rosa's nieces and nephews by one sibling had Polycystic kidney disease, an autosomal dominant medical condition usually diagnosed by ultrasound, a modality not invented until long after Rosa's death. Rosa also had a great niece who died of kidney failure at a young age which is suspicious for genetic kidney disease as well. While we don't know if Rosa also had polycystic kidney disease as roughly 50% of the children of an afflicted parent will, we do know that polycystic kidney disease increases the odds of the afflicted having the following vascular co-morbidities: cerebral aneurysms and cardiac valvular disease among other comorbidities in other organs. The fact that she died before help could even be summoned is suspicious for aneurysm. The story I was told about her death over a hundred years later was a bit different but involved suddenly dying after dinner from a suspected aneurysm.
Mother: Maria Mescher
Brothers: Franz, Anton, Joseph
Sister: Elisabeth & Franz Bergman
Rosa Puthoff, 28, of Maria Stein, was suddenly stricken with heart trouble while conversing with her mother shorty after supper last Sunday evening and died before medical aid could be summoned.*
The young woman was apparently in good health and had eaten a hearty supper. Her death came as an awful shock to the family and the people of the community. She was the daughter of Mrs. Dedrich Puthoff and the mother, one sister, and three brothers survive. Funeral services at Maria Stein Church yesterday morning.
- Two, but possibly more, of Rosa's nieces and nephews by one sibling had Polycystic kidney disease, an autosomal dominant medical condition usually diagnosed by ultrasound, a modality not invented until long after Rosa's death. Rosa also had a great niece who died of kidney failure at a young age which is suspicious for genetic kidney disease as well. While we don't know if Rosa also had polycystic kidney disease as roughly 50% of the children of an afflicted parent will, we do know that polycystic kidney disease increases the odds of the afflicted having the following vascular co-morbidities: cerebral aneurysms and cardiac valvular disease among other comorbidities in other organs. The fact that she died before help could even be summoned is suspicious for aneurysm. The story I was told about her death over a hundred years later was a bit different but involved suddenly dying after dinner from a suspected aneurysm.
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