HER FIELD A NATION
MRS. MARIE HASENWINKLE, WHO DIED SUDDENLY EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING,
A LEADER IN WORK OF WOMEN,
ESPECIALLY IN THE W. R. C., OF WHICH SHE WAS A NATIONAL OFFICER.
SHE HAD ALSO BEEN A MEMBER
Of the Women's Board for Minnesota at the World's Columbian Exposition In Chicago.
The patriotic women of a nation will be shocked to learn this morning of the extremely sudden and entirely unexpected death of Mrs. Marie Hasenwinkle, of this city, which occurred yesterday morning at an early hour at her home, 839 Osceola avenue. There was no woman in America who had taken a more active interest in the work of the Woman's Relief corps and in the manifold labors which were entailed upon the local members of that body in connection with the encampment of the Grand Army and this auxiliary order in St. Paul in 1896 and no one was more indefatigable in efforts to secure every consideration for the visitors from abroad than Mrs. Hasenwinkle, who had long been prominent in the councils of the order. Her election as senior vice commander of the national corps bespeaks in a measure the esteem in which she was regarded by her compatriots.
Mrs. Hasenwinkle, who was the wife of Henry Hasenwinkle, of the firm of McKibbin & Co., had been ailing for several years with an affection of the heart, but the end came unexpectedly. Beyond some depression caused by the intense heat of the week just passed, no marked change in her health had teen observed, and she seemed otherwise as well as usual. Saturday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Hasenwinkle drove about the city, Mrs. Hasenwinkle attending to a number of matters which demanded her attention, and at midnight Mrs. Hasenwinkle retired after bidding an affectionate good-night to her family. Mr. Hasenwinkle arose early and looking into his wife's room, saw her, as he supposed, asleep. It was not until her daughter, Mrs. Lloyd, came to call her mother that it was discovered that Mrs. Hasenwinkle's sleep was that which knows no waking. Dr. Walther, the family physician, was summoned and pronounced death to be due to heart failure.
Mrs. Hasenwinkle was a sister of Mrs. Kluckhohn and C. A., Paul and E. O. Zimmerman, all of this city. At the time she was elected national senior vice president of the Woman's Relief corps last fall, during the encampment in this city, she was department president Woman's Relief corps, for Minnesota. She served during the world's fair as a member of the woman's board of managers of the state of Minnesota, and many will remember her at the Minnesota state building during that summer. She had resided in St. Paul since 1856, and had a large acquaintance throughout the state in connection with her Woman's Relief corps and Grand Army work. The funeral will be deferred until the arrival of her son and daughter, who are in the East and who have been telegraphed for.
Source: The Saint Paul Globe, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 12 Jul 1897, Page 2