Obit for Miss Katie WIEDENMANN (b.1876 d.1918), Brown Co., MN

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Unknown Brown County Paper - May 1, 1918
KATIE WIEDENMANN
  Obsessed by the idea that she was going to starve and while temporarily 
mentally unbalanced, Miss Katie Wiedenmann committed suicide by hanging at 
the home of her sister, Mrs. Albert Knees in the town of Milford last 
Friday afternoon about 2:00 o'clock.  There was nothing in her actions 
and demeanor during the day which would indicate a different mental condition 
than had been manifested for some weeks, and she ate at noon with the family 
as usual.  After dinner Mrs. Knees went up stairs to do some packing and left 
her sister to wash the dishes. Not hearing anything downstairs for some time, 
Mrs. Knees became alarmed and went down to investigate. Not finding her sister 
in the house she started outside to look for her.  As she was going toward 
the barn she passed the summer kitchen and there she saw her sister hanging 
from one of the rafters. She immediately called to her husband who was in 
the yard and he went into the summer kitchen and found that life was extinct.  
As it was a plain case of suicide no inquest was deemed necessary.
  The deceased was born May 6, 1876, in the town of Milford where she spent 
her childhood days and grew to womanhood.  About 20 year ago she developed 
melancholia and her condition became so aggravated that she had to be sent 
to the hospital at St. Peter for treatment.  About a year later she was 
discharged as fully recovered and she was getting along very well until some
months ago when a nervous breakdown once more became apparent.  Her hearing 
had been quite seriously affected for several years and lately she was not 
able to do as good work as she had been doing in the past years. Before the 
breakdown came she was painstaking and careful and seemed to take a great 
deal of pride in turning out faultless work of whatever kind it was.
  With the exception of about eighteen months which she spent with her sister, 
Mrs. Fred. H. Gareis at Pomona, California, between 1915 and 1917, she has 
always lived in this vicinity and made her home with her mother and her 
sisters, Mrs. Albert Knees and Mrs. Herman Pfaender.  She was well taken 
care of and really had nothing to worry about, but still she did worry,
and her condition seemed to become more aggravated after the death  of 
her mother, which occurred last August.