Obituary

Weekly Valley Herald

Chaska, Minnesota

November 14, 1901

On Friday morning, November 7, 1901 at 4:53, Thekla Kugler, wife of George Kugler

of the village of Waconia, departed this life after an illness of over a year. Deceased

bore all her sufferings with true Christian fortitude and death was to her the beginning of a new life beyond the stars, her end was therefore peaceful and quiet. With her death the bereaved husband and children loose a loving wife and Christian mother. She was in her seventieth year, born February 19, 1932 at Reichling Bavaria and immigrated to America in the year 1847, with her parents Abraham and Antonia Ritter, settling in Elk County, Pennsylvania. In the early sixties the family, she having in the mean-time married her surviving husband, moved to this county, settling on a farm south of here near Benton town line, where she was esteemed and loved by all who knew her. The desire of the deceased, often expressed of getting near the church, caused Mr. Kugler, in the eighties to sell his farm and to move into the village and engage in the lumber business, there by the prayers and wishes of the deceased were fully realized. She lived a pious life, never forgetting any of her Christian duties as a faithful wife and mother and is survived by a loving husband an the following children: Joseph Kugler, Nobles Co. Minn, Rev. George T. Kugler, S.J. Spokane, Wa; Mathias, Frank and Edward Kugler, Waconia; Mrs. Crescentia Aretz,

Benton; Ven. Sister M. Basilia O.S. M. Lafayette, Ind; Mrs. Mathilda Wicken-

Hauser, Benton; Elizabeth Kugler, Waconia and Mamie Kugler, adopted, Columbus, Neb.

It will be remembered that Mr. and Mrs. Kugler on September 10^th, 1900 celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, the occasion being in the nature of a grand jubilee and will never be forgotten by her children and relatives.

The funeral took place from the Catholic Church on Monday last and was under the auspices of St. Anna Ladies Society and the third order of St. Franciskus of which she was a faithful member. The following acted as pallbearers: Morita Wagner, Frank Peitz, Albert Kohler, A. Ed. Kaeder, Mich. Gaffeke and Henry Wirtz.

The Rev. Father Rufinus, O.S.M., officiated at the church and grave, the sermon at the church was very impressive and touching. All of the children were present except the Rev. Fr. Kugler, S. T., Ven. Sister M. Basilia; O.S.F., and Mamie Kuger, [missing information] and accompanied the remains to its last resting place.

MAY SHE REST IN PEACE.