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Catherina "Katie" Schutte Limke

27 Sep 1862 – 3 Jul 1906

Birth27 Sep 1862
Death3 Jul 1906
CemeterySaint Stephens Cemetery
Nuckolls County , Nebraska , USA
Added byPeggy Bargen Duey on 14 Jul 2009
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The Nelson Gazette (Nelson, NE), Thursday, July 12, 1906; pg. 1 Lawrence, Neb., July 5.-- Mrs. Kate Lemke, a highly respected widow residing on her farm five miles south of this village, died yesterday morning, the direct cause of her death being grief. An eighteen-year-old son, Henry, died suddenly June 12 after a sickness of thirty-six hours of bowel trouble. The mother, at about that time, was well and strong and had not been ill for years. The dead son was her mainstay on the farm. She could not reconcile herself to his death notwithstanding the efforts of other members of the family and neighbors to help her. Her brooding continued, traces of insanity were first noticeable, and finally the weight of her troubles in the short space of three weeks broke her heart and death ensued. Her husband was killed eleven years ago in a runaway with a team hitched to a hay rake. ===================== Nuckolls County Herald (Nelson, NE), Thursday, July 12, 1906; pg. 8 Died. The sudden death of Mrs. Kate Lemke Tuesday night last was the fourth in the past four weeks that has occurred among our people following a spell of sickness of comparative short duration. Her illness since the death of her boy, which was the first that we refer to in the number mentioned, was considered of a grave nature from the beginning the trouble showing symptoms of a mental disorder superinduced by the great grief that followed the demise of her mainstay and trusted son Henry. With the best medical assistance that could be secured for her she was vigilantly watched and waited upon but all to no avail and she gradually sank until the life-thread could resist no longer and relief came to her in the peace of death. The doctor's certificate states that her death resulted from dementia paralytica and we accept from these terms that a broken heart might better explain it The best efforts of her family and friends could not stay the brooding of the mother in the lost of her son, nor change in the least the course of her mind which with its weight soon obscured every vestige of hope and the scene proved too dark for her to bear up under. The deceased lady was a highly esteemed resident of St. Stephens where with her family they have resided for many years. Her husband was accidently killed by a runaway team Dec. 29, 1895. She was aged 43 years, 8 mos. and 24 days. The deep sympathy of the community is extended to the family in the sad death of their mother. - Lawrence Locomative (sic).

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