Mrs P. F German, wife of Rev. P. F. Germann of 1721 North Edward street, died at 4:30 a. m. Friday at the Decatur and Macon county hospital, from injuries received by a fall in her kitchen on the twenty-eighth day of February.
Mrs. Germann was born in Baltimore, Md. Feb 20, 1851, a daughter of the Rev. Ernest G.W. and Amalia Vogel Keyl. Her maiden name was Emilie Caroline Keyl. Her father was one of the Saxon emigrants who in 1837 left the old fatherland on account of religious intolerance and sought this country of religious liberty, settled down In Perry county Mo, and became one of the founders of the Lutheran Missouri Synod. She was married to Rev. P. F. Germann on May 12, 1874 at Monroe, Mich. and moved with him to Kansas where he was a traveling preacher and missionary. She was a Christian woman and a devoted wife and shared with her husband all the joys and sorrows of a preacher's wife. She always took great interest in church work and as long as she had her health she was an able assistant to her husband. Since 1909, when she lost her only daughter in a tragic way, her health had been broken and she had been constantly under a doctor's care though it was the accident she suffered in February which brought about her death. In every charge which her husband held, she made and held scores of friends to whom the notice of her death will be a distinct shock. Besides her husband she is survived by two sons: Will F. Germann of Braggs, Okla., and Paul G.E.Germann of Chattanooga, Tn., but who now will locate in Decatur, three grandchildren: Charles William, Dorothy and Paul Jr. Germann, one brother, G.C. Keyl of this city and two sisters, Mrs. Maria Koerner and Mrs. Julia Glaser of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Decatur, IL Review Friday April 11, 1924