Obituary: Clark County, Wisconsin: Mary COWEN ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From The Phonograph (Colby, Clark, WI), Thursday March 17, 1898, Page 2 DIED--COWEN At her home, near Abbotsford, on Wednesday March 9th, Mary, the wife of Frank COWEN, aged 33 years and 1 month. Mary DOERNENBURG was born in Germany February 10th, 1865; she came to this country with her parents, who settled in Wisconsin in 1868; living for a time in Colby but for the past twenty years on a farm near Abbotsford; she was united in marriage with Frank COWEN, at Abbotsford, February 17th, 1882. She was the mother of four children, 3 sons and 1 daughter, one of the children being an infant born but a few days before the death of its mother. Her husband and children, her parents and brothers and sisters survive to mourn the loss of a true wife, an affectionate mother and a kind and loving daughter and sister. The funeral occured at Abbotsford Friday, and was attended by a large number of friends and acquaintances, the interment was in Colby cemetery. Rev. S. A. Hoffman officiated.