Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-27
ANSWERS SUDDEN SUMMONS.
Miss CordeIia Huber Expires While En-
gagged in FroIic.

Miss CordeIia Huber Expires While En-
gagged in Frolic.
Again has the Angel of DEATH with
fearful and unheralded suddenness,
| crossed the threshold of a happy
| home and stricken down a favored
member-one beloved and esteemed
by family and friends for her sisterly
affection and beauty Of character, her
sense of life's duties and self-sacrific-
ing nature, her ever helpful attain
| ments and social endOwments. In the
passing away of her of whom we write
is again realistically exemplifed the
sad truism, ssIn the midst of life we
are in death"
1t is not often we are called upon to
chronicle a death which came more
instantly, with no accident as the
cause, than that of Miss Cordelia
Huber, last Thursday evening. The
family were gathered on the lawn at
their home, 611 Sixth street, and
there, in the midst of a froic, the
young lady's life's light fiickered and
died out, with not the least sign of warn
inc or premonitiOn. Miss Huber had
started on run across the lawn with
letter and was given friendly chase
by her father, when, all of a sudden,
she fell to the ground, apparently dead.
Physicians were summoned immedi-
ately and everything possible done to
resuscitate her, but she was beyond
earthly aid. The happy, smiling eE :
preston of her countenance in death
showed she had expired instantly and
without pain, and served as a touching
evidence Of the frolic she was engaged
in as her life ebbed away. Valvular
heart trouble was assigned by the ply
sicians as the cause Of her sudden de-
mise.
The deceased was born at Ionia,
Ia, January 1, 1872, and when child
came to this city with her parents to
reside She had ever been held in the
highest respect by large circle Of
| acquaintance, to all of whom her
untimely death was a terrible shock
and a matter of the sincerest regret.
While her friends mourn her de-
pal UII Z do ODC N1iOoC COS1l clJIC cISSO-
Citations were ever cherished and
sought after, the loss falls particular
| " heavy upon the fond parents, sisters
and brothers, with whom she was an
| especial favOrite and a source of help
and comfort. IN their deep affection
they have the tender sympathy of the
| community.
Miss Huber's funeral was held Sun
day afternoon, and the immense con-
course of sorrowing friends and rela-
| tives in attendance testified to the
high position she held in the estima-
ton of our people. The profuse and
beautiful floral offerings were also
silent but eloquent tributes of numer-
Gus friends. Services were conducted
at the house by Rev. J. H. Brockmann,
of ST. Marks Lutheran church, and
the singing was rendered by a quar-
tette composed of f. w. Lehman,
| William SprOesser, Max ROhr and j.
| W. WiggenhOrn. The remains were
laid at rest in Oak Hill cemetery. The
! following young men acted as pail
bearers: Daniel Kusel, Ernst Cordes,
Oscar Kurzweg, Henry Winkenwerder,
Charles Schiebel and Eugene Meyer.
Among the relatives and friends
from out of town in attendance at the
funeral were: Miss Nellie Junge,
| Baraboo; Miss Nellie Huber, Cham
piOn, Mich; Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Huber,
Portage; Mrs. O. Arndt, Milwaukee;
! Misses Tillie and Alma Binzel, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. Schemmel Mr. and Mrs W.
Becken, Mrs. r. A. Welsh, Misses
Lucy and Mary Bickner, Joseph Mir
Zach, Beaver Dam; Mrs. Albert Robin
son, Huron, S. D.; DR.. George Meyer,
Mrs. Gus Lehman, Misses Louise and
Rose Meyer, Miss Ida Binzel, Misses
Emma and Minnie Mas, Miss Alma
| Urbutt, Oconomowoc.