Obit for REUSSE, Mrs. O.C. (Marie Pollak) (b.1870), Murray Co., MN
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"Mrs. O.C. Reusse Called by Death on Saturday Last - Coming quietly and 
unexpectedly, the death of Mrs. O.C. Reusse on Saturday afternoon, 
February 26th, cast a gloom over the entire community.
While Mrs. Reusse has been ailing the past six weeks or more, her 
condition was deemed neither serious nor fatal. Saturday morning she 
greeted her family in her usual cheerful manner, and her condition was 
seemingly so favorably, that the members of the family were about their 
accustomed tasks. Even at noon, no change was noticed, and the word that 
she was failing was as much a shock to her family as to her countless 
friends.

Marie Pollak was born in Austria, on the 27th day of November, 1870, the 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alois Pollak. The first 14 years of her life 
were spent at the parental home in Austria, Marie coming to this country 
with her parents in 1884, at which time they made their home on the farm 
three and one-half miles southeast of Fulda, now know as the John Miller 
place.

On March 15, 1889, she was united in marriage to O.C. Reusse. Together 
the young couple took up their life on the farm a half mile north of the 
Reusse tree claim. The following year, 1890, they moved to Fulda, 
occupying the present Andrew Johnson home; later Mr. Reusse, who had been 
in the carpenter business for several years, started a furniture store, 
and the family lived over the store for several years. The next home was 
the present one in the west part of town where Mrs. Reusse found ample 
room and facilities for satisfying her desire for flowers, shrubbery and 
all things beautiful. 

Mr. and Mrs. Reusse were blessed with eight children, one son, Otto, 
preceding his mother in death.

The children are Carl of Pipestone, Mrs. Curley (Dorothy) of St. Paul, 
Mrs. Bilben (Helen) of Walker, and Edward, Paul, Richard, and Marie, at 
home who, with their father, remain to mourn the loss of a loving wife 
and mother. Two sisters, Mrs. Louis King of Coulee, North Dakota, and 
Mrs. E. Zeiner, of Fulda, and four brothers, Joe and Frank of Eau Claire, 
Wisconsin, Adolph, of Dunnybrook, North Dakota, and Esidore of Fulda, 
also survive, as well as two grandchildren, Thomas and Mary Ann Curley, 
of St. Paul.

Funeral services were held Tuesday morning from St. Gabriel s Catholic 
church and interment made in the church cemetery. Assisting Father Jaegen 
in the services were Father Greoire of Dundee, and Father Kearney of 
Avoca.

The out-of-town relatives present at the funeral included Mrs. Gus. 
Martyn of Young America; Mrs. John Tradup of Fairbault, both sisters of 
Mr. Reusse; Mrs. Tena Wahlern of Sioux Falls, cousin of Mrs. Reusse; Joe 
and Frank Pollak of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, brothers; Mrs. Louis King of 
Coulee, North Dakota, a sister; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bilben, of Walker; Dr. 
and Mrs. H.C. Curley of St. Paul; and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Reusse of 
Pipestone." (This article came from a relative s scrapbook. The name and 
date of the paper are unkown.)