Obit of Emma Martha ODELL (b.1887 d.1912), Sibley Co., MN

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Arlington Enterprise
Thursday 15 August 1912

Emma Martha Odell
It has pleased the Lord to take from our midst Emma Martha Odell.  She was
born on the 4th of Oct. 1887 here in Arlington, Minn., being the daughter
of Theo. Streissguth and his wedded wife Katherine, nee Klinkert.  Here at
home she attended the Arlington public schoolup to her 13th year, after
which she entered the Lutheran Ladies Seminary at Red Wing, Minn., where
she was confirmed at the age of fourteen years.  After her comfirmation she
attended the Carleton College at Northfield, Minn., for one year and a
half, and completed her education at the Winona Normal School, from which
institution she was graduated in 1904.
Her love of children prompted her to take up teaching, especially in the
lower grades.  Her first term of school she taught at Foley, Minn.  The
three following years she was engaged in teaching the second primary class
at the Arlington school.  Having served her third term she decided to
become the wife of County Attorney W. F. Odell, son of W. C. Odell of
Chaska, Minn.  They were united in holy matrimony on the 21st of June,
1911.
Although short and full of trials their married life was a happy one. 
Shortly after marriage Mrs. Odell had to undergo an operation for
appendicitis.  Hardly recovered, she was again taken seriously ill on Good
Friday.  After this illness she seemed to improve rapidly, but on the 12th
of June she was again put to be being affected with acute Bright’s disease,
which lingered along for eight and one-half weeks until her maker came and
called her into his realm of glory on Sunday the 11th of August, at 9
o’clock in the morning.  She leaves to mourn her death her grief stricken
husband, her parents, and father-in-law, her aged grand-parents, 5
brothers, 4 sisters, 4 brothers-in-law, and 4 sisters-in-law.
The funeral services were held at the Streissguth home on Wednesday, the
14th of Auguts, whence the remains were laid to rest in the Arlington
cemetery.  The services were held by Rev. M. F. Abraham of Arlington
township, a quartet from Minneapolis appropriate selections.  The pall
bearers were her brothers, William, Otto, Theodore and Edmund Streissguth
and Fred DuTolt and Wallace Taylor of Chaska.
The relatives from out of town who attended the funeral were: W. C. Odell,
Misses Constance, Mabel and Ethel Odell, Ms. Klammer, Mrs. Taylor and son,
Wallace, Fred DuToit, Jr., Chaska; Mr. and Mrs. Geo DuToit, Excelsior; Mr.
Whitlock and family and Mr. J. Effertz, Belle Plaine; Ed. Streissguth, Mrs.
C. Ross and Mrs. G. Brumder, Milwaukee; Mrs. G. Reim and Adolph Reim, New
Ulm; Mrs. Ulhorn and Mrs. Sweppe, St. James; Mrs. H. Trowbridge, Portland,
Ore.; Otto Streissguth, Chicago.

Arlington Enterprise
Thursday 15 August 1912

Locals:
 All business places were closed during the funeral of Mrs. Odell
yesterday, which is a token of esteem that speaks more than all the
eulogies that may be written of the deceased.
 Among those from abroad who attended Mrs. Odell’s funeral here yesterday
we noticed the following:  All the county officers, J. J. Mohre, H. W.
Bosel, Miss Snow, Mrs. Behm, Senator and Mrs. Poehler, Mr. and Mrs.
Hermann, Mrs. Dretchko, Jos. Weist, Albert Scheer, Fred and Wm. Lieske, E.
B. Hanney, A. F. Poehler and family, W. H. Leeman and family, Mr. and Mrs.
L. A. Guilbert and daughter, Jos. Berla, Henderson;  Mr. and Mrs. T. M.
Payne, Glencoe;  Hon. G. A. McKenzie, wife and son, E. S. H. Johnson, E. P.
Hoerschgen, Thos. Comnick and ladies, R. J. Lemborg, Gaylord;  T. Thorson,
Winthrop;  Dan Meyers, Mrs. Geo. Young, Miss O’Meara, W. Groetsch, Ed.
Asal, J. B. Davitt, Green Isle.
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