Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Mary NEMETZ

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From the Friendship Reporter, Thursday September 29, 1921, Page 1

Mary CIZEK was born in Polna, Bohemia, October 31st, 1845. In 1867 she was
united in marriage with Matthias NEMETZ. They came to America in 1871 and
stayed for five years in Chicago. They then came to Wisconsin and spent all
their remaining days on the farm where they both have died.

To this union were born twelve children, eleven of whom are still living.
One son, Joe, died in is early manhood. Mr. NEMETZ died in 1913, after an
illness of nearly a year.

Of the children, Frank and John live in Milwaukee, Mrs. A. J. POLIVKA in
northern Wisconsin, Mrs. Rosa McBRIDE, Mrs. Annie WIDEN, Albert and Charles
in La Crosse, Mrs. Lizzie JENSEN in South Dakota, and Edward, Wint and
George in Quincy.

She leaves twnety-nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren to mourn
their loss. Three brothers and one sister also survive her.

Mrs. NEMETZ was of cheerful disposition, strong in spirit, ready to enter
every good work, a true and faithful friend. She brought to the new world
from the far-away home across the ocean an intense love for beauty in all
its forms. Although she knew all the privations of a pioneer mother on a
farm in the wilderness, she always looked for the fine and the beautiful,
always she toiled in faith and hope that never faltered, ever she saw for
her children better things ahead.

She has lived to see her best hopes realized; to visit in eleven happy,
prosperous homes where she was well-loved "Grandma"; and to keep in close
touch with them all through the medium of her busy, ever-ready pen. Of her
it may truly be said as of one of old, "She hath done what she could."

After an unusually active life of seventy-six years, the end came without
warning. Rising on the morning of Tuesday, September 20, 1921, she ate
breakfast as usual. While still sitting at the table she spoke quick,
calling her son's name several times. He reached her in time to prevent her
from falling on the floor, but she never spoke again, and soon breathed her
last. Doctor Poppe was summoned and he pronounced the cause of her death "a
hard stroke."

Undertaker Roseberry of Friendship conducted the funeral services Thursday
afternoon. All of her children were present to see their mother laid to
rest beside their father in the cemetery at Quincy. Rev. Barker of
Friendship officiated, Mrs. Purves and Mrs. Thomm sang "There Shall be no
Night Over There," which were comforting words to the sorrowing hearts.

The pallbearers were Messrs. August DITTBURNER, John WORMET, Theodore
WORMET, John ZORN, Fred ZORN and Andrew MOSHURE.