KNEW DEATH WOULD COME DURING NIGHT
Mrs. Katherine Schulze (sic) Told Friends That End Was at Hand.
PATIENT SUFFERER RELEASED BY DEATH
Conscious of the approach of death and forecasting her end during the night.
Mrs. Katherine Schulze bid farewell to relatives and friends who visited her
bedside Monday and calmly awaited the end which came as a deliverance from
many months of suffering at 4 o’clock this morning, death being quiet and
peaceful. Mrs. Schulze’s condition has been critical for several days and to
friends who visited her on Monday she said she felt that she would not survive
the night and the forecast proved a true one. Mrs. Schultze’s three children
were at the bedside when the end came. Mrs. Schultze’s death occurred at the
family home at Eighteenth street and Western avenue where she had resided for
many years.
For several years Mrs. Schulze had been a sufferer from a complication of
diseases and for months past she had been unable to leave her bed. The efforts
of skilled physicians and the kind ministrations of loving hands proved futile
to stay the progress of disease and for several days past it had been known
that death was but a matter of time. Mrs. Schulze was a patient sufferer and
even under the terrible shadow, was cheerful and in the closing hours of life’s
struggle, with the knowledge that death must be the end so soon, she met the
inevitable with a calm smile of resignation on her lips.
Mrs. Schulze was a native of Germany, having been born at West Pruessen sixty-
three years ago. She came to America with her parents when 1? years of age, the
family locating in this city which has since been her home. Her husband Adolph
Schulze died seventeen years ago. Mrs. Schulze had been a sufferer for several
years past from a complication of diseases and during the past several months
her condition has been such that no hopes of recovery could beheld out. The death
of her aged mother, Mrs. Katherine Klann at Collins, Mrs. Klann being 93 at her
death, was a shock that no doubt hastened Mrs. Schulze’s end as she grieved deeply
and had failed much more rapidly since that time.
Mrs. Schulze is survived by two sons, Adolph E., manager of County Abstract Co.
and Fred and one daughter, Miss Bertha, all of whom made their home with their
mother in this city. Two brothers, William Klann of Collins and Ernst Klann of
Reedsville and one sister, Mrs. Daniel Bubolz of Marshfield also survive.
A member of the German Lutheran church, Mrs. Schluze up to the time of her illness
was a devout worker in the church and was well known in the city and county. Death
came to her as a merciful deliverance from pain suffering which for years had
shadowed her life and which was borne patiently and with resignation. The funeral
will probably be held Friday afternoon from the home to the Lutheran church, Rev.
Machmiller officiating and interment being at Evergreen.
Manitowoc Daily Herald, October 25, 1910 P.1