The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-03-22
Mrs. Katherine Dahnke.Kaufman.

Kaufman took place at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. e.
Monrotus, in Union City, at o'clock
a. m, March Is, 1918, resulting from
an attack of la grippe and complica-
tions with which she had suffered for
a month or more. Mrs. Monrotus
had been spending the winter with
her mother in Nashville, ILL.,, and dis
posing of the family homestead they
came to Union City to the home of
Mrs. Monrotus about two months
ago. 1t was soon afterwards that
Mrs. Kaufman took the grip. On
Thursday afternoon he was not
thought to be dangerously i'll, but
grew rapidly worse during the night.
Mrs. Kaufman was the daughter
of Conrad Benner, who was for many
years a citizen of Illinois, locating
in st. Louis, where Mrs. Kaufman
was born July, 1843. In 1850
she was united in marriage to Henry
F. Dahnke. Seven children were
born and Mr.. Dahnke died in 1875.
One of these, Mrs. Mary Schwartz,
died in st. Louis in 1896. Conrad
Dahnke and Henry Dahnke, Jr., both
died in Union City. The survivors are
Mrs. Elizabeth Monrotus, George,
Fred and John Dahnke. Mrs. Kauf-
man is also survived by sister, Mrs.
Schlesinger, in Bellville, Ill.
The family located at Elkhorn,
Ill.,, and afterwards at Nashville,
H., where they resided for a mum.
Der of years. In 1887 George Dahnke
left home to locate in Union City
He was then by trade a baker, but
by virtue of thrift and enterprise his
business and commercial interests
grew until he is we'll known in this
part of the State. He is president and
manager of the Dahnke-Walker Mill
ing Co. The other brothers followed
in the course of time, Fred Dahnke
now being manager Of the Union
City Ice Co. plant. The youngest
John, is associated with the Dahnke-
Walker Milling Co. There are nine
teen grandchildren and seven great
grandchildren.
Deceased was married in 1900 tc
Mr.. Kaufman, who lived only two
or three years afterwards. She was
member of the evangelical branch
of the Lutheran Church, being con
firmed at the age Of IA years. II
| would be useless for us to undertake
to describe the character of this good
mother. We did not know her, but
the devotion of the children was
enough in itself to immortalize hel
name. The Commercial has always
held to the conclusion that the moth
er who has lived as the presiding
genius Of her household, where LITTLE
children grow to lisp and bless hel
name and worship with childlik'
faith a mothers devotion as fathom
less as the sea and boundless as thu
heavens, must be good enough TO
us to extol without further proof.
Mrs. Kaufman was evidently on
of these sweet-spirited women
whose domestic virtues and Chris
tian graces have purified and en-
nobled her sphere and contributed T.
the leaven Of life, leaving in memor,
the inheritance of a mothers Low
and kindness.
Services were held at the residenc
of Mrs. Monrotus on South Thir
street Saturday morning, March 1f
at 10 o'clock, conducted by Revs. r
M. Walker and w. B. Cunningham
interment at East View Cemetery
The grave was covered with flower
and floral tributes as mute evidence
of love for the good woman. TIL
pail bearers were as follows:
Grover Schleifer, Herbert Dahnke
Bud Monrotus, Wayne, Monrotus
Henry Dahnke, Fred Dahnke, Jr., al
grandsons of Mrs. Kaufman.