Waterloo
(IA) Courier - Friday, Nov 8, 1946:
"Henry
W. Landau, 76, of 413 East First Street, died Friday [Nov 8] at 8 a.m. at the
Allen Memorial Hospital of a heart ailment. Born Mar. 8, 1870 at Lee Center,
IL, he was the son of William and Lizzy Landau. He was married July 11, 1894,
at Lee Center to Catherine Koehler. An Iowa resident for the past 46 years, he
lived in Cedar Rapids from 1925 to 1945. In 1945, he moved to Waterloo and had
lived since then at the home of his son, Carl. Mr. Landau was a member of the
Lee Center Lutheran church.
Surviving
besides his [ex] wife and son, Carl, are: six sons, Jerome, Cedar Falls;
Everett, 819 Hawthorne avenue; Clarence, 321 Williston avenue; Wilbert 1117
Longfellow avenue; John, Gilbertville, Ia.; and Frank, 309 Allen Street; two
daughters, Mrs. Glenn Ladwig and Mrs. Everett Steege, Fredericksburg, IA.; 20
grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The body is at O'Keefe and Towne
funeral home."
Waterloo
(IA) Courier - Sunday, Nov 10, 1946:
"Funeral
services for Henry W. Landau, 76, of 413 East First Street who died Friday of a
heart ailment, will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. at O'Keefe and Towne funeral home.
Burial will be at Rosehill cemetery, Fredericksburg, IA. Rev. U. E. Burroughs,
pastor of First Baptist Church, Fredericksburg, will officiate."
Three months later, Katherine Koehler Landau passed away. She also spent her last days living with Carl and Marion.
Three months later, Katherine Koehler Landau passed away. She also spent her last days living with Carl and Marion.
Waterloo
Daily Courier - Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1947:
“Mrs.
Katherine Landau Champlin, 69, of 413 East First Street, died Monday at 5:30
p.m. in St. Francis Hospital of hardening of the arteries and complications.
Funeral
services will be conducted Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at the Peace Evangelical and
Reformed church at Fredericksburg, IA., by Rev. P. Weltge, pastor. A prayer service will precede at 12:30 p.m.
here in O'Keefe & Towne funeral home.
Burial will be in the Rose Hill cemetery at Fredericksburg.
Born on
Mar. 20, 1877 at Rotenburg, Germany, she was the daughter of Frederick and
Margaret Koehler. The family came to
this country in 1890 and settled in Ashton, IL.
On July 11, 1894, she was married at Lee Center, IL., to Henry W.
Landau. They were divorced. She was remarried on July 23, 1925, in
Waterloo to Charles W. Champlin. He died
here June 28, 1935. She was the member
of the Fredericksburg church.
Nine children by the first marriage survive, including seven sons,
Jerome, 2459 Iowa Street, Cedar Falls; Everett, 819 Hawthorne Avenue; Clarence,
321 Williston Avenue; Wilbert, 1139 Longfellow Avenue; John, Route 6; Carl, 413
East First Street; and Frank, 413 Allen Street; two daughters, Mrs. Vera Ladwig
and Mrs. Mata Steege, both of Fredericksburg; 20 grandchildren, and 2 great
grandchildren.”
DOCUMENTS:
- Waterloo Courier obits as noted above
DOCUMENTS NEEDED:
- Death certificates for both
- Birth or baptismal records for both
An interesting anecdote here. One summer I was staying with my Grandmother, Vera E. Ladwig ( Nee Landau) and she told me that despite her parents having gotten a divorce, she did not approve of the divorce. After her father and mother had both passed, she obtained the grave where her father was buried and had her mother's remains moved to be buried with her father in Rose Hill Cemetary, thus ensuring they would be back together for good in eternal rest. - RICHARD LARDNER
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information, Rich. I've wondered why they were buried together. I can remember my mother saying that Grandma Katie would have turned over in her grave if she knew.
ReplyDeleteGrandma Vera really hated the idea of them being divorced. She also told me that around 1907 or so she was in nursing school at the Waterloo School of Business, where a doctor ran a school to train young nurses. Her mother took to bedrest and was unable to do the tasks of a mother, so being the oldest, she was pulled out of school and told her studies were finished, and she returned home to take up the role of the mother for the younger siblings. She always dreamed she would have been allowed to become a nurse, and passed that on to my mother Florence who became a nurse in ~1945. She told me also that her father was a very mean man and when she was kicked in the barn milking cows as a child, it broke her leg. Her father blamed her for having broken her leg and told her she would have to fix it because it was her fault. The hired man, named Waterman, came out to the barn and had her grip a stick and bite on another, and he set her leg for her. She had problems with that leg her entire life.....
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