KATHERINE HOERTH
Kiel Woman Is Killed And 3 Others Injured. Mrs. Catherine Hoerth, 52, widow of Isadore Hoerth, of Kiel was killed and her daughter and two grandchildren were injured seriously shortly after 8 o'clock Wednesday evening when their car left Highway 32 northwest of Howards Grove and smashed into a culvert. Dr. Reed M. Simpson, Sheboygan county coroner, stated that Mrs. Hoerth died of a skull fracture. In addition she had a fractured leg and other injuries. Although none of the occupants of the car were in condition to be questioned, the sheriff's department determined that the victim's daughter, was driving the 1949 Hudson sedan at the time of the mishap. The car had been off the roadway for 120 feet before crashing into the culvert.
Also in the car were two children of the driver. All were taken to St. Nicholas Hospital by Rudy's ambulance. The victim's daughter, according to the attending physician, suffered cuts to the face and abrasions and contusions to both knees and ankles. X-rays show no fractures. The victim's granddaughter suffered two deep lacerations to the forehead and a fractured right upper arm and lower left leg.
The victim's grandson escaped with numerous body bruises. Mrs. Hoerth's death was the ninth traffic fatality occurring in Sheboygan county this year.
Mrs. Hoerth was born Aug. 26, 1902, at Stockbridge, the daughter of Harry and Mary (Diedrich) Merrill, and attended school there. She was married to Isadore Hoerth of Jericho on Jan. 18, 1921, and the couple locate on a farm near Jericho until 1947 when they moved to Kiel.
Survivors are two sons and three daughters (names omitted for privacy), her mother, Mrs. Mary Merrill of Chilton; two brothers Joseph of Oshkosh, and Frank of Waukegan; four sisters, Sister Nicola of Manitowoc, Mrs. Gilbert Bowe of Brothertown, Mrs. Arthur Joas of Kiel, and Mrs. Orville Tuetz of Milwaukee. Her husband died in November, 1954, and her father, a sister and a brother also preceded her in death.
She was a member of the Christian Mothers' Society of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church at Kiel, and members of the society will recite the rosary at the church Sunday afternoon. Funeral services will be held Monday at 9:30 a.m. at the Meiselwitz Funeral Home at Kiel and at 10 o'clock at Ss. Peter and Paul Church with the Rev. F.X. Kheil officiating.
Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 p.m. Saturday until the time of services.
Sheboygan Press, Thurs. May 19, 1955, p. 1, c. 5
Kiel Woman Is Killed And 3 Others Injured. Mrs. Catherine Hoerth, 52, widow of Isadore Hoerth, of Kiel was killed and her daughter and two grandchildren were injured seriously shortly after 8 o'clock Wednesday evening when their car left Highway 32 northwest of Howards Grove and smashed into a culvert. Dr. Reed M. Simpson, Sheboygan county coroner, stated that Mrs. Hoerth died of a skull fracture. In addition she had a fractured leg and other injuries. Although none of the occupants of the car were in condition to be questioned, the sheriff's department determined that the victim's daughter, was driving the 1949 Hudson sedan at the time of the mishap. The car had been off the roadway for 120 feet before crashing into the culvert.
Also in the car were two children of the driver. All were taken to St. Nicholas Hospital by Rudy's ambulance. The victim's daughter, according to the attending physician, suffered cuts to the face and abrasions and contusions to both knees and ankles. X-rays show no fractures. The victim's granddaughter suffered two deep lacerations to the forehead and a fractured right upper arm and lower left leg.
The victim's grandson escaped with numerous body bruises. Mrs. Hoerth's death was the ninth traffic fatality occurring in Sheboygan county this year.
Mrs. Hoerth was born Aug. 26, 1902, at Stockbridge, the daughter of Harry and Mary (Diedrich) Merrill, and attended school there. She was married to Isadore Hoerth of Jericho on Jan. 18, 1921, and the couple locate on a farm near Jericho until 1947 when they moved to Kiel.
Survivors are two sons and three daughters (names omitted for privacy), her mother, Mrs. Mary Merrill of Chilton; two brothers Joseph of Oshkosh, and Frank of Waukegan; four sisters, Sister Nicola of Manitowoc, Mrs. Gilbert Bowe of Brothertown, Mrs. Arthur Joas of Kiel, and Mrs. Orville Tuetz of Milwaukee. Her husband died in November, 1954, and her father, a sister and a brother also preceded her in death.
She was a member of the Christian Mothers' Society of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church at Kiel, and members of the society will recite the rosary at the church Sunday afternoon. Funeral services will be held Monday at 9:30 a.m. at the Meiselwitz Funeral Home at Kiel and at 10 o'clock at Ss. Peter and Paul Church with the Rev. F.X. Kheil officiating.
Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 p.m. Saturday until the time of services.
Sheboygan Press, Thurs. May 19, 1955, p. 1, c. 5
KATHERINE HOERTH
Kiel Woman Is Killed And 3 Others Injured. Mrs. Catherine Hoerth, 52, widow of Isadore Hoerth, of Kiel was killed and her daughter and two grandchildren were injured seriously shortly after 8 o'clock Wednesday evening when their car left Highway 32 northwest of Howards Grove and smashed into a culvert. Dr. Reed M. Simpson, Sheboygan county coroner, stated that Mrs. Hoerth died of a skull fracture. In addition she had a fractured leg and other injuries. Although none of the occupants of the car were in condition to be questioned, the sheriff's department determined that the victim's daughter, was driving the 1949 Hudson sedan at the time of the mishap. The car had been off the roadway for 120 feet before crashing into the culvert.
Also in the car were two children of the driver. All were taken to St. Nicholas Hospital by Rudy's ambulance. The victim's daughter, according to the attending physician, suffered cuts to the face and abrasions and contusions to both knees and ankles. X-rays show no fractures. The victim's granddaughter suffered two deep lacerations to the forehead and a fractured right upper arm and lower left leg.
The victim's grandson escaped with numerous body bruises. Mrs. Hoerth's death was the ninth traffic fatality occurring in Sheboygan county this year.
Mrs. Hoerth was born Aug. 26, 1902, at Stockbridge, the daughter of Harry and Mary (Diedrich) Merrill, and attended school there. She was married to Isadore Hoerth of Jericho on Jan. 18, 1921, and the couple locate on a farm near Jericho until 1947 when they moved to Kiel.
Survivors are two sons and three daughters (names omitted for privacy), her mother, Mrs. Mary Merrill of Chilton; two brothers Joseph of Oshkosh, and Frank of Waukegan; four sisters, Sister Nicola of Manitowoc, Mrs. Gilbert Bowe of Brothertown, Mrs. Arthur Joas of Kiel, and Mrs. Orville Tuetz of Milwaukee. Her husband died in November, 1954, and her father, a sister and a brother also preceded her in death.
She was a member of the Christian Mothers' Society of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church at Kiel, and members of the society will recite the rosary at the church Sunday afternoon. Funeral services will be held Monday at 9:30 a.m. at the Meiselwitz Funeral Home at Kiel and at 10 o'clock at Ss. Peter and Paul Church with the Rev. F.X. Kheil officiating.
Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 p.m. Saturday until the time of services.
Sheboygan Press, Thurs. May 19, 1955, p. 1, c. 5
Kiel Woman Is Killed And 3 Others Injured. Mrs. Catherine Hoerth, 52, widow of Isadore Hoerth, of Kiel was killed and her daughter and two grandchildren were injured seriously shortly after 8 o'clock Wednesday evening when their car left Highway 32 northwest of Howards Grove and smashed into a culvert. Dr. Reed M. Simpson, Sheboygan county coroner, stated that Mrs. Hoerth died of a skull fracture. In addition she had a fractured leg and other injuries. Although none of the occupants of the car were in condition to be questioned, the sheriff's department determined that the victim's daughter, was driving the 1949 Hudson sedan at the time of the mishap. The car had been off the roadway for 120 feet before crashing into the culvert.
Also in the car were two children of the driver. All were taken to St. Nicholas Hospital by Rudy's ambulance. The victim's daughter, according to the attending physician, suffered cuts to the face and abrasions and contusions to both knees and ankles. X-rays show no fractures. The victim's granddaughter suffered two deep lacerations to the forehead and a fractured right upper arm and lower left leg.
The victim's grandson escaped with numerous body bruises. Mrs. Hoerth's death was the ninth traffic fatality occurring in Sheboygan county this year.
Mrs. Hoerth was born Aug. 26, 1902, at Stockbridge, the daughter of Harry and Mary (Diedrich) Merrill, and attended school there. She was married to Isadore Hoerth of Jericho on Jan. 18, 1921, and the couple locate on a farm near Jericho until 1947 when they moved to Kiel.
Survivors are two sons and three daughters (names omitted for privacy), her mother, Mrs. Mary Merrill of Chilton; two brothers Joseph of Oshkosh, and Frank of Waukegan; four sisters, Sister Nicola of Manitowoc, Mrs. Gilbert Bowe of Brothertown, Mrs. Arthur Joas of Kiel, and Mrs. Orville Tuetz of Milwaukee. Her husband died in November, 1954, and her father, a sister and a brother also preceded her in death.
She was a member of the Christian Mothers' Society of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church at Kiel, and members of the society will recite the rosary at the church Sunday afternoon. Funeral services will be held Monday at 9:30 a.m. at the Meiselwitz Funeral Home at Kiel and at 10 o'clock at Ss. Peter and Paul Church with the Rev. F.X. Kheil officiating.
Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 p.m. Saturday until the time of services.
Sheboygan Press, Thurs. May 19, 1955, p. 1, c. 5
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