Yearbook: Hutmacher Family History - Revision 7 - November 1, 1979

She was a small slender person with black hair and black eyes. Mary was named for her mother. Her Father, Peter, and Father Hubert met in Antlers Oklahoma, and became close friends. Peter wrote to his daughters, Mary C. and Anna Josepha, who were working at the hospital in Effingham, Douglas, Effingham, Illinois, USA and told them to join the family in Anthers, Oklahoma. In 1910, while living in Antlers, Oklahoma, Mary and Anna Josepha went to work for Father Hubert.

A. Josepha worked at the rectory a short time and returned to the farm. Mary C. was very happy with Father Hubert at the rectory and remained his housekeeper for most of her life. She was an excellent housekeeper, a gourmet cook, an accomplished seamstress, and handled responsibilities with ease. When Father Hubert was transferred to Okmulgee, Okmulgee, Okahoma, USA, Mary C. went with him.

In 1947, she returned to Dieterich, Illinois, to live in retirement. She moved to St Louis, Missouri, in 1959 and lived there until her death. She never married. Mary C. contributed information for the Hutmacher Hauben Family Genealogy Record.

Obituary: Dieterich Special Gazette - June 1, 1961

Services held on My 20th

Funeral services for Miss Mary Hutmacher, formerly of Dieterich, who passed away at the Little Sisters of the Poor Rest Home in St Louis, where she had been a resident since May, 1959, were held at 9:00 am on Saturday May 20th, at the Immaculate Conception Church in Dieterich with the Pastor Rev Father Collins officiating. Burial was in the parish Cemetery with the Wright Service of Dieterich in charge of arrangements.

Mary Christine Hutmacher was born at Wheeler, Illinois, USA, on January 14, 1894, a daughter of Peter Joseph Hutmacher and Christine Helmbacher. Her Father was a section foreman for the Indiana and Illinois Southern Railroad. He was transferred from Wheeler in 1887 to a similar position at Dieterich and the family moved to the latter village. In 1901, Mr. Hutmacher resigned and Thomas Wooley (his son-in-law) became foreman. In 1902, the family moved to their farm in Franklin County, Illinois, USA, but returned to Dieterich in 1904 where Mr. Hutmacher engaged in a mercantile business. In 1908, the family moved to Antler, Oklahoma. In 1910, Mary Christina took a position as housekeeper for Father Hubert at Bartlesville, Osage, Oklahoma, USA and later at Okmulgee, when he was assigned to the latter parish.

In 1947, she returned to Dieterich to live in retirement and where she continued to reside until she took up residence in St Louis in 1959.

Miss Hutmacher is survived by a brother, Louis of Effingham, and an Aunt Miss Dora Helmbacher of Teutopolis, three half-brothers, Fred of Fort Worth, Texas; Henry of Alief, Texas; and Bernard of Houston, Texas, and four half-sisters, Mrs Brian (Blanche) Lumpkin of lake Charles, Louisiana, Mrs Gertrude Scoggins of San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. Mrs E J (Laura) Spencer of Long Beach California, USA and Mrs Bernice Weathers of Fort Worth, Texas.

She was preceded in passing by her parents, two half-sisters Mrs T L Wooley and Mrs C J (Mary Catherine) Steppe of Dieterich and a half-brother, Peter Francis.

She was also preceded in passing by four brothers, Peter Joseph, Francis Rupert, Alfred Michael and Anton Joseph and one sister, Anna Josepha (Sister Leo), a nurse in the Franciscan Order.

Contributor: Ronald J Repking (48426701) • [email protected]