Obit: |
Horn, Emma Tanner (1882 - 1947) |
Contact: |
Duane |
Email: |
capperh@juno.com |
Surnames: |
HORN TANNER ERZINGER CILTENER STEINER FRESENBORG |
----Source: Marshfield News Herald 6/
/1947
MRS. WILLIAM HORN DIES AT GREENWOOD.
HEART ATTACK CAUSES SUDDEN DEATH FUNERAL RITES SET
SUNDAY.
GREENWOOD--Mrs. William Horn, 65, who lived
at Greenwood the past 37 years, died suddenly at 5:30 o'clock,
Wednesday evening, June 25, 1947, at her home in the City of
Greenwood. A heart attack cased her death and she was in poor
health the past three years.
Mrs. Horn and her husband had been in Marshfield Wednesday
afternoon to make arrangements for an eye operation for the former
next Monday, and she had been lying down to rest before eating
supper when death occurred.
Mrs. Horn, the former Emma Tanner, daughter of the late Godfried
and Barbara (Hupler) Tanner, was born in Bern, Switzerland, June
23, 1882. She and her sister, Louise, came to America in 1905 from
Switzerland to be with their brother, Godfried, who had come here
in 1903. Another brother, Rudolph, followed two years later.
In 1907, she was married to Herman Erzinger, who died in 1909, and
in 1917 she married William Horn. She had come to Greenwood from
New Glarus in 1910.
Surviving besides her husband, is a son, Rudolph Erzinger, who with
his wife and their son, Otto, had returned to their home in Lena,
Ill., on Monday afternoon after helping his mother celebrate her
birthday.
Other survivors are two brothers, Godfried and Rudolph, both in
Greenwood a sister, Mrs. Louise Ciltener, Brodhead and three
sisters and a brother in Switzerland, Mrs. Lena Steiner, Misses Ida
and Sophie Tanner, and Otto Tanner.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the
Horn home and at 2 o'clock at Zion Reformed Church, the Rev. B. M.
Fresengorg officiating. Burial will be made in the Braun Settlement
cemetery.
The body will lie in state at the Schiller Funeral Home until
Saturday, when it will be taken home.
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