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Mrs. Anna Fuchs
1834 - 1914
Fuchs,
Anna, b.
Fuchs,
Reinier, b.
PIONEER
MILLINER PASSES TO REST
Mrs.
Anna Fuchs Succumbs Saturday to Illness of Many Years.
STARTED
STORE IN CIVIL WAR DAYS
Retiring
After More Than Thirty Years of Active Work
Was
Widowed by Civil War
Mrs. Anna Fuchs, for
sixty-two years a resident of this city and a pioneer milliner of this section
of the state, died at her home Saturday afternoon at
Mrs. Fuchs was almost
eighty years of age, she having been born in Bohemia,
Soon after the death
of her husband, she established herself in the millinery business, which she
sold after conducting it for more than thirty years and which has continued in
operation through changing several times, being now the property of Mrs.
Margaret May.
Well known throughout
the community, Mrs. Fuchs was universally respected and greatly loved by all
who knew her. Even during the last months of her life, she was a great friend
of the children and her passing will be regretted by many of the younger
generation as well as the adults of the community.
Contributor to St. Henry's school
Her works of charity
were many. She was one of the largest contributors to St. Henry's school and
other interests of the parish of which she was a member.
The surviving
relatives are a sister, Mrs. Gabriel Keimig, of this
city and her children, and four grandchildren of her son, the late Mr. Otto
Fuchs. The grandchildren and their mother, now Mrs. C. W. Hodson
of Oshkosh, arrived this morning to attend the funeral.
Funeral services were
held this afternoon at the late home
Owing to the holding
of special services for the forty hours devotion at St. Henry's church, the
mass was omitted for the day, and will be sung Wednesday morning at
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