ANNA KNIER (d. 1956)
Rites Held Monday for Mrs. Ambrose Knier
Funeral services were held Monday morning at St. Gregory's Catholic church in St. Nazianz for Mrs. Ambrose Knier, 78. Mrs. Knier died at St. Nicholas hospital Thursday after a lingering illness.
The services were conducted by a nephew, Major Alois Knier, chaplain in the U.S. Army. Burial was in the parish cemetery.
Mrs. Knier, a resident of St. Nazianz for 44 years, was born in the town of Schleswig, June 29, 1886, the daughter of the late Anton and Margaret Stein Schad. September 22, 1908 she was married to Ambrose Knier at St. Nazianz and the couple settled on a farm near Aniwa.
After four years they moved to St. Nazianz, where Mr. Knier was employed as a carpenter. Mrs. Knier was a member of the Christian Mothers of St. Gregory's church, and took an active role in the village centennial in 1954 with her hobby of spinning yarn on a spinning wheel.
For the past four months she had made her home with a daughter at St. Wendel.
Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Mrs. John Koerberer(?) of St. Wendel and Mrs. Albert Wiedemann of Sheboygan; a son, Joseph of Batavia; brother, Alois Schad of New Holstein, and eight grandchildren.
(Newspaper unknown 12-20-1956)
ANNA KNIER (d. 1956)
Rites Held Monday for Mrs. Ambrose Knier
Funeral services were held Monday morning at St. Gregory's Catholic church in St. Nazianz for Mrs. Ambrose Knier, 78. Mrs. Knier died at St. Nicholas hospital Thursday after a lingering illness.
The services were conducted by a nephew, Major Alois Knier, chaplain in the U.S. Army. Burial was in the parish cemetery.
Mrs. Knier, a resident of St. Nazianz for 44 years, was born in the town of Schleswig, June 29, 1886, the daughter of the late Anton and Margaret Stein Schad. September 22, 1908 she was married to Ambrose Knier at St. Nazianz and the couple settled on a farm near Aniwa.
After four years they moved to St. Nazianz, where Mr. Knier was employed as a carpenter. Mrs. Knier was a member of the Christian Mothers of St. Gregory's church, and took an active role in the village centennial in 1954 with her hobby of spinning yarn on a spinning wheel.
For the past four months she had made her home with a daughter at St. Wendel.
Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Mrs. John Koerberer(?) of St. Wendel and Mrs. Albert Wiedemann of Sheboygan; a son, Joseph of Batavia; brother, Alois Schad of New Holstein, and eight grandchildren.
(Newspaper unknown 12-20-1956)
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