Sunday evening about 5 o'clock, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Toledo, Mrs. Josephine Behringer, wife of county commissioner Charles Behringer and a born Bernardine, was released from her misery by an easy death. This sufferer was born on 24 March 1861 in Columbiana county, Ohio, but came as a child with her parents to Antwerp, where she lived until her marriage with Charles Behringer in 1878, and since then Defiance had been her home. of seven children whom she bore, only the son Grover is still alive. Besides [him] she leaves behind her parents and five siblings. Monday morning the remains were brought here to the family home and Tuesday afternoon laid in the chapel crypt, after Father J. P. Gloden of St. John's Catholic Church held a funeral service in the former home. May the deceased rest easily!
Maria Kehnast
Tuesday morning of this week about eight o'clock in her home in Brunersburg, Maria Kehnast, a born Batram and wife of Mr. August Kehnast, died as the result of multiple strokes. she was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin and came very young to this country. Here in the year 1858 in the New York county of Erie she married the now widowed August Kehnast, with whom she settled three years later in Florida, Ohio. Not long after, the family of August Kehnast moved to a ?homestead in Noble Township, which they have successfully cultivated for more than twenty years. Since then (the couple) August and Maria Kehnast have lived in Brunersburg in retirement. of the seven children who were born to them, only William Kehnast, Jr., farmer and thresher in Noble Township, and John Kehnast, who serves as foreman for the 'Defiance Grocery co.', are still alive. The deceased had brought her age to 74 years, 3 months and 11 days.
The burial is Thursday morning from the Methodist Church in Brunersburg to the cemetery there. Pastor F. A. Kiess of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran congregation, to which the deceased belonged, will hold the burial service at 9:30.
Mrs. Minnie Gaunt
As reported in a message received here Tuesday morning, Mrs. Minnie Gaunt died suddenly Monday evening of kidney disease in her home in San Rafael, Cal. She was a daughter of Mr. Adam Minsel and his deceased wife Elisabeth, born in Defiance and 32 years old, in April of this year. She leaves her widower, two sons, four and six years in age. Additionally left behind are ten siblings, of whom only the apothecary A. M. Minsel and Mrs. Karl Walter reside in Defiance.
Mrs. Mary Groweg
After more than a yearlong illness of pulmonary tuberculosis, on Saturday towards evening, Mary Groweg, a born Beck and wife of Mr. Adolph Groweg Jr., died in her home on east second Street at the age of 44 years, 3 months and 26 days. She was born in Seneca county, Ohio, and came in the middle of the seventies to Defiance, where in 1887 she married the now mourning widower. From this marriage [came] four children -- Edward, Maud, Hazel and Wilhelmine -- who are all still alive. Besides her [immediate] family the deceased leaves behind four brothers and one sister. she belonged to the Ladies society 'Harmonia' of St. John's Lutheran congregation and to the local branch of the Ben Hur assurance (?insurance) group.
The burial took place Tuesday morning under the direction of Pastor F. A. Kiess of St. John's Lutheran Church, in Riverside cemetery.
Mrs. Harry Green
In her home at No. 403 Fernwood Avenue in Toledo early Wednesday, Mrs. Harry Green, daughter of M.r and Mrs. Ferdinand Kroll, died shortly after she had borne a baby daughter. She leaves behind a widower, whom she married not quite five years ago, the baby, her parents, 2 brothers and 4 sisters. The remains will be brought to Defiance for burial, but the time of the funeral service has not yet been determined.