Mrs. Regina Rath, 81, formerly of 1003 Lowell St., Two Rivers, died early Saturday morning at Shady Lane Home, Manitowoc, where she had been a resident for nearly four years.
Funeral services will be 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Klein & Stangel, Inc., Funeral Home, Two Rivers, and at 10 a.m. at St. Mark Catholic Church, Two Rivers, the Rev. Norbert Rath, of Peterborough, N.H., a grandson, officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Two Rivers.
Mrs. Rath, nee Regina Leicht, was born in Bavaria, Germany, May 21, 1877, a daughter of the late Albin and Mary Kaufman Leicht. She was seven years old when the family brought her to this country, settling in Two Rivers. She was married in October, 1896 to Michael Rath, a mason contractor, at Sheboygan Falls. They had 7 children. Several years later the family moved to Two Rivers, where she had resided until her residence at Shady Lane Home.
Regina was widowed in May of 1918 when her husband Michael was killed in an accident during a wind storm, while building a church steeple on St. Nicholas Church, Freedom, Outagamie County, Wisconsin. She went on to raise her seven children on her own.
She was a longtime member of the St. Mark Altar Society.

Surviving Mrs. Rath are four daughters, Mrs. Eleanor Luecke of Manitowoc; Mrs. Louis Lintereur of Two Rivers, Mrs. Harvey Degen of Sheboygan and Mrs. Celestine Rath of Appleton; three sons, Valentine and City Clerk H.J. Rath of Two Rivers and Jerome of Appleton; three sisters, Mrs. Jacob Petri of Green Bay, Mrs. Al Pearson, of Waukegan, Ill., and Mrs. Frank Gebler of Sheboygan; a brother, Isadore Leicht of Waukegan, 23 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Monday where the Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, November 8, 1958 P. 9