Bio: Weber, Catherine (101st Birthday - 1965)

Contact stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Weber, Heidle, Mertens, Jones, Voelker, Wiltgen

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 01/14/1965

Weber, Catherine (101st Birthday - 13 JAN 1965)

Mrs. Catherine Weber, 316 W. Stanley St., Thorp (Clark Co., Wis.), celebrated her 101st birthday Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1965.

She was born Jan. 13, 1864. Her father, Christian Heidle, enlisted in the Union Army at Camp Randall, Madison, Wis. He died in the army in 1864 and was buried in Little Rock, Ark. She and her mother later moved to St. Ann, Wis. When she was twenty-one years of age, she married Michael Mertens of St. Ann. They came to Thorp in 1885 and she has lived here all these years. There were three children, Oscar Mertens (deceased), Irma Jones, Altoona, Wis., and Olga Mertens of Thorp. Mr. Mertens operated a furniture and jewelry store here until his death in 1890.

Later Mrs. C. Mertens was united in marriage to Max Weber of Thorp who died in 1925. One son was born, Frank Weber, Madison, Wis., deceased in 1960.

Mrs. Weber's mother, Catherine, Voelker, lived to the age of 93 years and died at Thorp in 1928. Her sister, Mrs. Pauline Wiltgen of Thorp passed away at the age of 94 years and her sister Margaret Voelker of Thorp died at the age 89 years in 1959. Mrs. Weber has fifteen grandchildren, fifty great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.