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Anna Catherine (Wittman) Borchers

1865 - 1943

Mrs. John Borchers, 1233 South Ninth Street, a resident here for more than 30 years, passed away at her home October 21, 1943. Her death followed an illness.

Before her marriage at Madison on November 15, 1892, she was Anna Catherine Wittman, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wittman.

Mrs. Borchers was a member of St. Henry's and of the Christian Mothers' Society. She was well known in this community and numbered her friends in large numbers.

The funeral was held from the Boyle Funeral Home with services at St. Henry's Church. The Rev. Dean F. X. Schwinn officiated. Burial was in St. Henry's Cemetery.

SURVIVORS:

Besides her husband, there are six children who survived, Anton Borchers, Springfield, Ill.; Carl Borchers, this city; Joseph Borchers, Waukesha; Mrs. Nestor Krusing, Milwaukee; Mrs. Herman Reinecke Waukesha, and Mrs. Harvey Gritzner, this city. There were three grandchildren, Lieut. Leon Krusing, Eugene Krusing and Joyce Borchers. There are two brothers, Isadore Wittman, Mazomanie, and August Wittman, state of Washington. Two great grandchildren also survived.

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