Telegrams to relatives here last week brought news of the death on Wednesday of Mrs. Helen Wittman of Merrill, Wis., at a Waukesha hospital following a lingering illness of more than a year.
The body was taken to Merrill where the funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the late home. Mrs. Wittman, nee Helen Heins was born in Kiel in 1859, where she grew to womanhood.
She was married in 1884 to Dr. A. R. Wittman at Kiel, where Dr. Wittman for a number of years was a teacher in the public schools. The family has made its home at Merrill since 1892.
Besides the husband, four sons, Herman of Duluth, Minn., Walter and Carl of Merrill, Arthur in the Philippines, and one daughter, Gerda of Milwaukee survive her. Also two brothers, Rudolph Heins of Kiel, Arthur of Tigerton and three sisters, Miss Minnie and Mrs. J. B. Laun of Kiel and Mrs. A. W. Dassler of Fort Smith, Ark.; and two grandchildren.
The body was taken to Merrill where the funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the late home. Mrs. Wittman, nee Helen Heins was born in Kiel in 1859, where she grew to womanhood.
She was married in 1884 to Dr. A. R. Wittman at Kiel, where Dr. Wittman for a number of years was a teacher in the public schools. The family has made its home at Merrill since 1892.
Besides the husband, four sons, Herman of Duluth, Minn., Walter and Carl of Merrill, Arthur in the Philippines, and one daughter, Gerda of Milwaukee survive her. Also two brothers, Rudolph Heins of Kiel, Arthur of Tigerton and three sisters, Miss Minnie and Mrs. J. B. Laun of Kiel and Mrs. A. W. Dassler of Fort Smith, Ark.; and two grandchildren.
Telegrams to relatives here last week brought news of the death on Wednesday of Mrs. Helen Wittman of Merrill, Wis., at a Waukesha hospital following a lingering illness of more than a year.
The body was taken to Merrill where the funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the late home. Mrs. Wittman, nee Helen Heins was born in Kiel in 1859, where she grew to womanhood.
She was married in 1884 to Dr. A. R. Wittman at Kiel, where Dr. Wittman for a number of years was a teacher in the public schools. The family has made its home at Merrill since 1892.
Besides the husband, four sons, Herman of Duluth, Minn., Walter and Carl of Merrill, Arthur in the Philippines, and one daughter, Gerda of Milwaukee survive her. Also two brothers, Rudolph Heins of Kiel, Arthur of Tigerton and three sisters, Miss Minnie and Mrs. J. B. Laun of Kiel and Mrs. A. W. Dassler of Fort Smith, Ark.; and two grandchildren.
The body was taken to Merrill where the funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the late home. Mrs. Wittman, nee Helen Heins was born in Kiel in 1859, where she grew to womanhood.
She was married in 1884 to Dr. A. R. Wittman at Kiel, where Dr. Wittman for a number of years was a teacher in the public schools. The family has made its home at Merrill since 1892.
Besides the husband, four sons, Herman of Duluth, Minn., Walter and Carl of Merrill, Arthur in the Philippines, and one daughter, Gerda of Milwaukee survive her. Also two brothers, Rudolph Heins of Kiel, Arthur of Tigerton and three sisters, Miss Minnie and Mrs. J. B. Laun of Kiel and Mrs. A. W. Dassler of Fort Smith, Ark.; and two grandchildren.
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