Mrs. Anna Kahl, a born Zimmerle and wife of Mr. Casper Kahl, died on Thursday evening about six o'clock in the family residence on the corner of Harrison and Division Streets, after having suffered through a six year illness. She was born in the Kingdom of Bavaria and came young to this country. Her mourning widower she had married in Toledo and had resided with him over forty years in Defiance. She had brought the time of her earthly pilgrimage to 64 years, 10 months and 24 days. Remaining behind with the widower are four daughters and three sons as follows: Mrs. Jakob A. Klein of here, Mrs. H. C. Rahe in Cleveland, the sisters Luzella and Felicia in the convent, Frank, Joseph C. and John Kahl of here. Besides these she leaves behind the sister Mrs. Emma smith and the brother Joseph Zimmerle in Dayton, Ohio, as well as a number of grandchildren. Her remains were taken Monday morning to the grave in the Riverside Cemetery, after Father J. P. Gloden had held a funeral service in the St. John's Catholic Church. The pallbearers were John Nolan, John Schneider, Jakob Baltes, John Schlembach, M. J. Walz, Oswalt Schwab.
[birth: 30 May 1848 Bavaria] [death: 24 Apr 1913 Defiance, Defiance, Ohio] [burial: 28 Apr 1913 Riverside cemetery, Defiance, OH] [parents: Joseph Zimmerly, Francis Reis Miller]
Maria Dorothea Kitter
Maria Dorothea Kitter, a born Bohlmann and the wife of Mr. Karl Kitter, died on Tuesday morning about 7 o'clock after a three day illness in the family residence No. 620 summit Street. She was born on the 16th of July 1856 in Campheide, Asendorf parish in the district of Hoya in the province of Hannover, and has therefore brought her lifetime to 56 years, 9 months and 13 days. In the year 1874 she immigrated to this country with her widowed mother and took up residence at once in Defiance, where the son and brother Heinrich Bahlmann had settled a few years earlier. With Mr. Karl Kitter she entered, on the 1st of August 1878, into matrimony and presented him with the son Julius, who currently serves as a priest of a congregation in Valley City, Medina County, Ohio. On the past Friday she suddenly became ill and from then on visibly worsened, until on Tuesday at the aforementioned hour death occurred. Father Julius Kitter arrived at the sickroom of his mother on the previous afternoon. Left behind are the widower Karl Kitter, the son Father Julius Kitter and the brother Heinrich Bohlmann. The deceased belonged to the Christian Mothers' Society of the St. John's Catholic congregation and was generally respected as a capable wife and mother.
The burial service will take place Friday morning at 9 o'clock in the St. John's Catholic Church and burial will follow in the Riverside cemetery.
Heinrich Oestreicher died last Thursday about half past four in the afternoon in his residence No. 815 Harrison Street after a many week long illness from lung fever. He had suffered for many weeks, before he lay down, from a severe cold, which he had caught during high flood, and his lung fever ?went suddenly to a critical stage. Because of the strong constitution of the patient, one had hoped for the best, but severe (internal) bleeding occurred, which rapidly brought the resistance of the patient to naught.
Heinrich Oestreicher was born on the 18th of August 1848 in Gerolsheim near Frankenthal in Rhenish Bavaria, and had therefore brought his lifetime to 64 years and 8 months. On the 4th of July 1874 in his home he married Christine Schuster, who on the 8th of May 1908 preceded him in death. On the 19th of January 1909 he entered a second marriage with the widow Margarethe Bethge, born Böhm, who survives (him). His first marriage was blessed with five children, of whom one died in Germany. The surviving children are Mrs. Maria Engelhardt of here, Friedrich Oestreicher in Lima, Mrs. Katie Ford and Mrs. Christine Patterson in Toledo. Besides there are four grandchildren alive, as well as one brother back in Gerolsheim and one sister in Syracuse, New York. Heinrich Oestreicher came to America in the year 1882 and settled at once in Defiance, where serves for many years up until his death as an honest and capable worker for the Defiance Gas & Electric Co.
The deceased belonged to the A.G.D. Sickness Support Society and the Lutheran Illness Aid Society. His remains were buried Sunday afternoon in the Riverside Cemetery, after Pastor L. H. Ziemer had held a funeral service at half past one o'clock in the former residence and at 2 o'clock in the St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Acting as pallbearers were Jakob Schneider, Fritz Fölker, Wilhelm Dürk, August Wahl, Christoph Dürk and Johann Kraus, all born in Gerolsheim and already acquainted with the deceased in the father-city. Flower bearers were F. P. Schneider and Peter F. Seibel.