Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Wilhelmina REINKE ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, March 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Winneconne Local March 21, 1918 p.1 Old Settler Dies Mrs. Wilhelmina Reinke died Monday, March 18th, of dropsy. Deceased was born in Goldbeck, Pomerania, Germany, April 20, 1842, and came to Winneconne in 1884 and lived here ever since. The departed lady was twice married, first to Karl Krause in Germany and later to Albert Reinke who survives her. Deceased was ill four and one-half years and before her death she became deaf, but she endured this bravely to obtain future reward. The following relatives survive to mourn her loss: a husband and two daughters, of Milwaukee, Mrs. Wm Lierman of the town of Winneconne, a son Karl Krause, seven grand children; one brother Karl Laabes of Winneconne, and two sisters, Mrs. Albert Raeske and Mrs. Henry Schmerling. Funeral services will occur Friday from the residence at 2 p.m. and from St. Paul's Lutheran church at 2:30. Rev. G. T. Hoyer conducting the last sad rites at the Village cemetery.