Her Obituary
Two Rivers Reporter, Sat., 18 Dec. 1937
MATHILDA BEGALKE
MRS. BEGALKE, FORMER GIBSON RESIDENT DEAD
Sister of Mrs. Emma Kurtz Dies at Kohler; Funeral Here Monday for Mrs. Edward Begalke, 85, former county resident and sister of Mrs. Kurtz of this city, died Friday afternoon at Memorial hospital at Sheboygan, where she had been a patient two weeks. She fell at her home in Kohler and fractured her hip.
Mrs. Begalke, nee Mathilda Moeller, was a member of a family all of whom attained a ripe old age. Her sister Mrs. Kurtz, the mother of Postmaster Charles F. Kurtz, is now 82. A brother Carl, at Algoma, is 78, and a brother, Bernard, died here a few years ago at the age of 75.
Funeral services will be held here Monday at 2 p.m. from the Beduhn Funeral Home. Interment will be in Pioneers Rest cemetery.
Mrs. Begalke was born in Preussen, Germany in 1852 and came to this country at the age of 20. In 1874 she married Edward Begalke and the couple settled on a farm in Gibson. For the past 23 years she had lived in Kohler.
Other survivors in addition to the brother and sister are three daughters, Mrs. Julius Grumann, city, Mrs. Louis Streese, Mishicot, and Mrs. Emma Mundt, Kohler; one son, August, Manitowoc; fifteen grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
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Her Obituary
Two Rivers Reporter, Sat., 18 Dec. 1937
MATHILDA BEGALKE
MRS. BEGALKE, FORMER GIBSON RESIDENT DEAD
Sister of Mrs. Emma Kurtz Dies at Kohler; Funeral Here Monday for Mrs. Edward Begalke, 85, former county resident and sister of Mrs. Kurtz of this city, died Friday afternoon at Memorial hospital at Sheboygan, where she had been a patient two weeks. She fell at her home in Kohler and fractured her hip.
Mrs. Begalke, nee Mathilda Moeller, was a member of a family all of whom attained a ripe old age. Her sister Mrs. Kurtz, the mother of Postmaster Charles F. Kurtz, is now 82. A brother Carl, at Algoma, is 78, and a brother, Bernard, died here a few years ago at the age of 75.
Funeral services will be held here Monday at 2 p.m. from the Beduhn Funeral Home. Interment will be in Pioneers Rest cemetery.
Mrs. Begalke was born in Preussen, Germany in 1852 and came to this country at the age of 20. In 1874 she married Edward Begalke and the couple settled on a farm in Gibson. For the past 23 years she had lived in Kohler.
Other survivors in addition to the brother and sister are three daughters, Mrs. Julius Grumann, city, Mrs. Louis Streese, Mishicot, and Mrs. Emma Mundt, Kohler; one son, August, Manitowoc; fifteen grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
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