OBITUARIES:  Delima (Morneau) COUTURE, Rice Lake, Barron County, WI

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Delima (Morneau) Couture (wife of Anselm Sylvestre "Sam" Couture)

Rice Lake Chronotype obituary Dec. 21, 1922 (Rice Lake, Barron County, WI)

"Mrs. Sam Couture. Delima Morneau was born in the parish of St. John, 
Chrysostome, province of Quebec, Canada, on Sept. 30, 1854, and died in 
this city on Thursday, Dec. 14, after a short illness with cancer, at 
the age of 68 years, 2 months and 14 days.  When twenty-two years of age 
she was married to Sam Couture, and seven years later, in 1883, they 
removed to this city from Canada with their three children:  Alice, now 
Mrs. John Mitchell; Cordelia, now Mrs. William Burton; and Albertine.  
One child had died in infancy in Canada.  Since their removal to this 
city nine more children were born to this union:  Calista, now Mrs. Roy 
Benson of Spooner; Archie, at home; and Wilfred of Sioux City, Iowa, six 
others having preceded their mother in death.  Funeral services were held 
Saturday morning at St. Joseph's church, the Rev. A.J. Van Helden 
officiating, with interment at St. Joseph's cemetery.  All her children 
from away, several grandchildren, numerous other relatives, and a host of 
friends made during the thirty-nine years she resided here, joined the 
bereaved husband and children in the final services in honor of a true 
and loving wife and mother, and a kind and sympathetic friend."