CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF MARY BURBACH

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HARTINGTON HERALD – 12-10-1934

Mrs. J.H. Burbach

Child birth causes the death of young mother – funeral is held Wednesday

The death of Mrs. J.H. Burbach, a young mother saddened many homes in 
Cedar County when word of her death was received early Monday morning. 
The cause of Mrs. Burbach’s death was convulsions after the birth of a 
daughter.

Mary Reuter, daughter of Jos. Reuter, an early pioneer family in this 
region, was born in Cedar county on October 1, 1890. She grew to 
womanhood in the Bow Valley vicinity and after completing her school 
work, she took a course at the Wayne State Teachers College and 
following this secured a school in the St. James vicinity, where she 
taught for one year. She was only 17 years of age at that time.

After completing a successful year of teaching she remained at home 
taking care of her invalid mother until her death which occurred in 
March, 19 years ago. Two years later her father passed away.

On January 7, 1927, Miss Reuter and J.H. Burbach of Hartington were 
united in marriage at the Holy Trinity parsonage with Father Ferd. 
Schnuettegen, performing the ceremony.  The couple had arranged the 
wedding date to occur with a number of sevens predominating as they 
were wed at seven in the morning on January 7th, the year of 1927 
and the bride was 37 years old.

After their marriage the couple resided in Hartington with W.H. Burbach, 
Sr. and took care of him until his death in June. This spring, Mr. and 
Mrs. Burbach moved to a farm a short distance west of Hartington where 
they lived happily together.

Mrs. Burbach was greatly beloved for her kindness and thoughtfulness of 
others and had devoted years of her life in the care of her parents.

Mrs. Burbach had been in delicate health and for the past two weeks had 
not been very well. She had made preparations Sunday evening for the 
family washing to be done the following morning to be assisted by her 
sister, Mrs. Joe Boland. Sunday evening at midnight, she became ill, 
giving birth to a daughter. Convulsions developed and nothing could be 
done to save the mother, who passed away at 3 o’clock that morning. 

The survivors are her husband, J.H. Burbach, and infant daughter, 
Marietta, five brothers, William, Henry, Casper, all of Hartington. Joe 
of Wall, SD, and George of Bow Valley. and three sisters, Mrs. Martin 
Rameil, Mrs. Henry Boland, and Mrs. Henry Boland all of Hartington. Joe 
Reuter of Wall, SD was unable to come home as his son is seriously ill 
at that time. 

Funeral services were held on Wednesday morning at 9:30 o’clock from the 
Holy Trinity Catholic Church with Father J.T. Bernauer officiating. 
Interment was made in the St. Michael Cemetery.

The pallbearers were John Rameil, Julius Burbach, Victor and Cyril Becker 
of Fordyce, and Anthony and Werner Burbach all being nephews. The 
honorary pallbearers were Mrs. Louis Burbach, Mrs. Joe Marx, Mrs. Nick 
Konz, Mrs. John T. Fleming, Mrs. John Roth, and Mrs. A.G. Eickhoff who 
are members of the Christian mothers Society.  The late Mrs. Burbach held 
the office of secretary in that organization.