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1863 - 2008



Uhlman, Mary Leuenberger

Mary Leuernberger was born in Bern, Switzerland, July 5, 1868, and died at the Newman Memorial Hospital, Emporia, Jan.13 1825, at the age of 56 years, 3 months and 8 days.

She and five sisters came to America in 1889. She was married to John Uhlman at ElDorado, Kansas, in 1892. They moved to the Saffordville community in 1895, where they have lived ever since.

To this union were born four sons and two daughters, all of whom are living and were at home for the funeral. She was the oldest of nine sisters, four of whom attended the funeral.

She leaves to mourn her departure, her husband, John Uhlman; four sons and two daughters: Will of Florence; Ray of Kansas City, Mo.; Ed of Emporia; Miss Lucie of Saffordville; John of, Topeka; and Mrs. Ruby Caywood of Emporia; also eight sisters; Mrs. Lizzie Strasser of White- water, Kansas; Mrs. Elsie McKnight of Shawnee, Okla.; Mrs. Nellie Little of Pueblo, Colo.; Mrs. Bertha River of Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Emma Supernaugh of Elk City, Kansas; Miss Louise Leuenberger of Wichita; Mrs. Ida Bolls of Atchison, Kansas, and Miss Lena Leuenberger of Springfield, Mo.; three grand-children and a host of other relatives and friends.

Mrs. Uhlman became a Christian and united with the church in Switzerland and after coming to this country joined with the Baptist church at ElDorado, Kansas, and later united with the M. E. Church at Saffordville, to which she has been a most faithful member. She will long be remembered because of her faithful attendance at church and Sunday School and also the Women's Home Missionary Society. Even when most others thought the weather to bad to attend she would drive her horse through mud and dark and be in her place.

The sisters who attended the funeral were Mrs. Lizzie Strasser of Whitewater; Mrs. Emma Supernaugh of Elk City, Kansas; Miss Louisa Leuenherger of Wichita, and Mrs. Ida Bolls of Atchison, Kansas. The funeral services were held in the Saffordville church by her Pastor, J. H. Summer, at 2 o'clock Thursday, Jan. 15, 1925. Text John 14;1-3 and the remains laid to rest in the Toledo cemetery.

Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Jan 13 1925.



Chase County Death Notices and Obituaries,
compiled and abstracted from the Chase County Courant and Chase County Leader Newspapers
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