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Sophia Koehler
1850-1926
The Catholic Herald, 01 07 1926
Watertown: Funeral services for Mrs. John Koehler, who
died from bronchial pneumonia, were held Tuesday of last week from St. Henry's
Church. The Rev. F. X. Schwinn officiated. Burial was at St. Henry’s Cemetery.
Mrs. Koehler was a native of
Switzerland. Her maiden name was Sophia
Werner and she was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Werner who came
here in 1853.
She was born on
SURVIVORS:
Daughter Rose
Koehler, Watertown
Daughter Helen
Koehler, Watertown
Daughter Miss
Julia Koehler, Madison
Daughter Miss
Sophia Koehler, Flint, MI
Son Joseph
Koehler, Watertown
Son John
Koehler, Manitowoc
Sister Miss
Caroline Werner, Sheboygan
PRECEDED IN DEATH:
Husband
John Koehler
1849- 1915
Watertown Gazette, 04 15 1915
Death of John Koehler.
Our citizens were greatly shocked Tuesday
evening on learning of the death of our esteemed citizen John Koehler, which
took place on that evening at St. Mary’s hospital, where he was operated on the
evening previous for appendicitis. Mr.
Koehler had been ill only since the previous Wednesday evening, and on Tuesday
he was taken to St. Mary’s hospital with the hope of saving his life by an
operation.
Mr. Koehler was born on November 11, 1849,
in Landskron, Germany, and came to this city from
that place in 1860, where he has ever since resided. On February, 1883, he was married to Sophia
Werner, who with seven of the children born to the union, survive him: John Koehler, Manitowoc; Joseph Koehler,
Watertown; Miss Julia Koehler, Neosha; Misses Rose,
Sophia, Laura and Helen Koehler, Watertown.
One brother, Ignace Koehler, Chicago, also
survives.
For many years he conducted a wagon shop on
Third Street, and when the Watertown
Electric Light Co. was organized here, Mr. Koehler was appointed its
superintendent and was associated in that business with the late Joseph Terbrueggen and with L. H. Cordes,
till they disposed of the plant to its present owners.
For some time after that he was connected
with the brickmaking firm of
L. H. Cordes & Co., and on the death of Mr. Terbrueggen, a member of the firm, Mr. Koehler became his
successor.
He was an active member of St. Henry’s
Catholic church, being secretary of the congregation
for 35 years and a member of the church choir 40 years. He was also a member of St. Henry’s Society
and of Branch 85, Catholic Knights of Wisconsin, carrying a policy of $2000 in
the latter society.
Friday morning at 8:45 o’clock his funeral
will take place from his late home to St. Henry’s church. The
interment will be in St. Henry’s cemetery.
In Mr. Koehler’s death this community has
lost one of its very best citizens. Of
quiet inoffensive manner, he was a man of acknowledged foresight and force,
experienced and eminently successful in business affairs, conciliatory in
temperament, in character a man of integrity, strongly disposed toward justice
and good will to his fellow man.
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