Death Notice
Friends and acquaintances, the sad news that our much beloved wife and mother, Wilhelmina Lemke, born Koehler, on Monday evening at 6:30, at the age of 35 years, 3 months and 15 days, is resting in peace.
The burial was take place on Thursday, the 10rd of May, at 1:30 in the afternoon from the mourning house, No. 516 Center Str.
Your personal sympathy please for the mourning and bereaved:
Wilhelm Lemke, husband, along with six minor children, and friends, and relatives.
Dear Father, you rest peacefully
In a cool vault on earth.
Your goodness is an unblemished image,
As our guardian angel;
As you lived, we also want
Always to follow, endure, strive,
Your goodness is our refuge and adornment,
For this, and the next life.
If in our weariness we falter, and our love fails,
you encourage us once more
HUSBAND'S DEATH NOTICE WILHELM LEMKE
William Lemke – Friends and acquaintances, the sad news that our much beloved father, brother, brother-in-law, father-in-law, and grandfather, William Lemke, on Saturday, the 6 April at 11:00 in the morning, at the age of 63 years, 10 months and 3 days, has suddenly passed away.
The funeral will take place on Tuesday, the 9th of April, at 2:30 in the afternoon from the mourning house, No. 1024 7th Street, from there to Union Cemetery.
Your personal sympathy please, the mourning and bereaved.
George Lemke, Emma Brochmann, Anna Jaeckel, Minnie Lemke, Rosie Fitzpatrick, children; Elisabeth Lemke, born Shiller, daughters-in-law; Fred. Jaeckel, William Fitzpatrick, sons-in-law; along with siblings, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, grandchildren, relatives and friends.
* * *
For what hath life been giving,
From youth up till this day,
But constant toil and striving?
Far back as thought can stray,
How many a day of toil and care,
How many a night of tears,
Hath pass'd in grief that none could share,
In lonely anxious fears!
Hymn: Ich bin ein Gast auf Erden (I am a guest on earth)
Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676, vs. 2
- Translated as "A pilgrim here I wander", Vs. 2
by Miss Winkworth Lyra Ger., 2d Series, 1858, p. 173; Chorale Book, 1863, no. 148
- The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941.
Milwaukee Germania Abendpost, 08 April 1912, pg 5 col 7
Death Notice
Friends and acquaintances, the sad news that our much beloved wife and mother, Wilhelmina Lemke, born Koehler, on Monday evening at 6:30, at the age of 35 years, 3 months and 15 days, is resting in peace.
The burial was take place on Thursday, the 10rd of May, at 1:30 in the afternoon from the mourning house, No. 516 Center Str.
Your personal sympathy please for the mourning and bereaved:
Wilhelm Lemke, husband, along with six minor children, and friends, and relatives.
Dear Father, you rest peacefully
In a cool vault on earth.
Your goodness is an unblemished image,
As our guardian angel;
As you lived, we also want
Always to follow, endure, strive,
Your goodness is our refuge and adornment,
For this, and the next life.
If in our weariness we falter, and our love fails,
you encourage us once more
HUSBAND'S DEATH NOTICE WILHELM LEMKE
William Lemke – Friends and acquaintances, the sad news that our much beloved father, brother, brother-in-law, father-in-law, and grandfather, William Lemke, on Saturday, the 6 April at 11:00 in the morning, at the age of 63 years, 10 months and 3 days, has suddenly passed away.
The funeral will take place on Tuesday, the 9th of April, at 2:30 in the afternoon from the mourning house, No. 1024 7th Street, from there to Union Cemetery.
Your personal sympathy please, the mourning and bereaved.
George Lemke, Emma Brochmann, Anna Jaeckel, Minnie Lemke, Rosie Fitzpatrick, children; Elisabeth Lemke, born Shiller, daughters-in-law; Fred. Jaeckel, William Fitzpatrick, sons-in-law; along with siblings, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, grandchildren, relatives and friends.
* * *
For what hath life been giving,
From youth up till this day,
But constant toil and striving?
Far back as thought can stray,
How many a day of toil and care,
How many a night of tears,
Hath pass'd in grief that none could share,
In lonely anxious fears!
Hymn: Ich bin ein Gast auf Erden (I am a guest on earth)
Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676, vs. 2
- Translated as "A pilgrim here I wander", Vs. 2
by Miss Winkworth Lyra Ger., 2d Series, 1858, p. 173; Chorale Book, 1863, no. 148
- The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941.
Milwaukee Germania Abendpost, 08 April 1912, pg 5 col 7
Gravesite Details
Husband of Wilhem. Mother of Rose Lemke Fitzpatrick. Buried with Baby on top of her grave. Died in May 1888.. Great Grandmother of Gregg Howard Fitzpatrick
Family Members
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