Obit: Thayer, Catherine (1866 - 1941)

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Surnames: Thayer, Olson, Patrick, Burnett, Korntved

----Sources: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) 01/23/1941

Thayer, Catherine (10 Jan. 1866 - 20 Jan. 1941)

Mrs. William Thayer, of Unity, died Monday night at 10:30 at the age of 76 years at her home, a complication of ailments being the cause of her death. Funeral services will be held this Thursday afternoon at the Trinity Lutheran church at Unity, Rev. J. A. Olson officiating, and internment will be made in the Colby cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Lulloff Funeral Home in Colby until this Thursday morning at 9:00 o’clock when it will be taken to the church.

Mrs. Thayer, nee Catherine Patrick, was born in Osceola, and was married at Campbellsport, Jan. 10, 1886 to George Burnett, who died Feb. 20, 1936. She was married to William Thayer at Unity Sept. 1st, 1936.

A resident of Unity and vicinity for the past 60 years, Mrs. Thayer was also a member of Christ Disciple Church.

Surviving besides her husband and sister, Mrs. Agnes Thayer, who lived with the William Thayers, are two children whom the Thayers reared, Mrs. John Korntved of Unity, and Aloysius Burnett who lives in the East.