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1863 - 2002




Loose, Cornelia

Mrs. Cornelia Giger passed away April 1st at Cottonwood Falls after a lingering illness of a complication of diseases She spent the past winter at Glendale, Arizona, but the climate there failed to benefit her.

She was born at Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pa., Oct. 22, 1868. She was the daughter of John and Louise Loose, who moved to the west, settling at Marine, Ill., when she was five months of age, where the father soon died, leaving the mother with three small children. After the mother's second marriage, the family moved on a farm north of Marine, Ill. where she grew to young woman hood. There she attended the district school. At the age of fourteen she was confirmed at the German Evangelical church, where she took her first communion.

On April 14, 1882, she was united in marriage to Harvey M. Giger at Litchfield, Ill, and settled on a farm near Alhambra, Ill., where they resided for two years. At the end of that time they removed to a farm near Elmdale, Kansas where she resided the remainder of her life.

Here she united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and in the years of her strength, was an active worker both in church and Sunday School, a charter member of the Ladies' Aid, and assisted in other church activities.

She leaves to mourn her death, her husband, three sons, and one daughter. The three sons are Leroy M. and Orville E. of Elmdale, and Harold H. of Chicago. The daughter is Mrs. Elva L. Angle of Courtland, Kansas. She also leaves three sisters and two brothers. The sisters are Mrs. Elizabeth Voigh of Granite City, Ill., Miss Lottie Reinhart of St. Louis Mo., and Mrs. Hannah Giger of Highland, Ill. Beside these she leaves seven en grandchildren.

She was of a quiet nature, a loving mother whose home was her world, end of whom it may be said the world is made better by her having lived in it. She will be greatly missed by all who will long cherish her memory.

Funeral services were conducted from the old home north of Elmdale at 2 o'clock, Tuesday, April l4. Rev. E. V. Allen, the Methodist pastor, officiating.

Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, April 1 1922



Chase County Death Notices and Obituaries,
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