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The
Kieler · Uthe · Schumacher
Heritage

Johannes "John" Kieler (1800-1882)
Barbara (Kieler) Uthe (1836-1917)
Mathilda (Uthe) Schumacher (1865-1897)
Anna (Schumacher) Gerken (1895-1967)
Joan (Gerken) Larson (1926-1994)
Thomas Larson (1962-)

Researched and written by
Tom Larson

Katherine "Kate" Uthe (1878-1950) was a sister of my great-grandmother Mathilda (Uthe) Schumacher. Kate Uthe married Martin Hauser (1873-1942). They resided in Dubuque, Iowa.    T.L.

Martin and Katherine (Uthe) Hauser

Katherine "Kate" Uthe

Photo image contributed by Marge Rice, who bought the original photograph from an antique dealer in Dyersville, Iowa. The photo was taken by Lenz Bros., photographers in Dubuque, Iowa, and on the back of the photo was written Kate Uthe.
Katherine Uthe was born on April 19, 1878, in Wisconsin, daughter of Frank and Barbara (Kieler) Uthe. Kate Uthe married Martin F. Hauser on May 1, 1900, in Kieler, Wisconsin. Martin Hauser was born on May 23, 1873, in Cuba City, Wisconsin, son of Joseph and Gertrude (Legler) Hauser.

Martin and Kate Hauser resided in Dubuque, Iowa, moving there circa 1905.Martin and Kate Hauser had three children, Loretta Hauser, Leona Hauser, and Walter Hauser. The family were members of Holy Ghost Church in Dubuque; Kate was a member of the parish rosary society, and Martin was a member of the St. Aloysius Society. She was also a member of St. Agatha court, Women Catholic Order of Foresters. Martin Hauser was a machinist at Morrison Brothers in Dubuque and a member of the Machinist Union.

Martin Hauser dies.
Martin F. Hauser, 68, employed during the past 25 years as a machinist at Morrison Brothers Company, died Thursday, New Year's morning, January 1, 1942, at 3:15 o'clock, following an illness of one week, at the family home on Pinard Street in Dubuque, Iowa.

The body was transferred late Thursday afternoon from the Hoffmann Mortuary in Dubuque to the family residence, where friends were able to call after 6 o'clock, Thursday evening. The funeral was held Saturday, January 3, at 10 o'clock, from the family home to the Holy Ghost Church in Dubuque, with the assistant pastor, the Rev. Clarence Raker, officiating. Father Raker also officiated at graveside rites in Mount Calvary Cemetery in Dubuque, where burial was made. Pallbearers were Charles Uthe, Wilbert Uthe, Joseph Schumacher, Alfred Carroll, Clarence Jacobi, and Melvin Runde.

Persons from out of the city who attended the services were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hauser, and Miss Jean Hauser, all of Cedar Rapids, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hauser and George Hauser, Cuba City, Wis.; Mrs. Frank Heim, Argyle, Wis.; Andrew Hauser, Breda, Ia.; Nicholas Hauser and Henry Hauser, Wall Lake, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Timmerman and Bernard Bassen, Kieler, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. William Runde and son Eldon, Zwingle, Ia.; Arthur Wiederhold, Dickeyville, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Speaker and son Ralph, Galena, Ill.; and Mrs. Harold Farley, East Dubuque, Ill.

Mr. Hauser was survived by his wife Katherine; two daughters, Mrs. Loretta B. Biver and Miss Leona E. Hauser, both at home; one son, Walter A. Hauser, of Cedar Rapids, Ia.; six sisters, Mrs. Frank Heim, of Argyle, Wis., Mrs. Ed Jacobi, Mrs. Anthony Haas, and Mrs. Curran Carroll, all of Dubuque, Ia., Mrs. Peter Timmerman, of Kieler, Wis., and Mrs. William Runde, of Zwingle, Ia.; four brothers, Joseph Hauser, of Cuba City, Wis., Andrew Hauser, of Breda, Ia., and Henry Hauser and Nick Hauser, both of Wall Lake, Ia.; and three grandchildren.

Katherine Hauser dies.
Katherine "Kate" Hauser, 71, widow of the late Martin Hauser, died at 11:15 p.m., Sunday, January 15, 1950, at the family home on Pinard Street in Dubuque, Iowa. Although ailing for the past year, she had only been seriously sick for only the past three months. She was the last of the Uthe family, her brothers and sisters all preceding her death. The remains were at the family residence, where friends called after 7 p.m., Monday, January 16. The funeral was held at 9 a.m., Wednesday, January 18, to Holy Ghost Church, Dubuque, and burial was in Mt. Calvary in Dubuque.

Mrs. Hauser was survived by one daughter, Leona E. Hauser, at home; one son, Walter A. Hauser, of Cedar Rapids, Ia.; three grandchildren, Eldon Biver, of Dubuque, Ia., Jean Hauser, of Mercy Hospital in Dubuque, Ia., and Jerry Hauser, of Cedar Rapids, Ia.; and two great-grandchildren, William and Robert Biver. She was preceded, besides her parents and her husband, by a daughter, Mrs. Loretta Biver, four sisters, and five brothers.


Children of Martin and Katherine (Uthe) Hauser:


Sources include obituaries from the Dubuque, Iowa, Telegraph Herald; the Rootsweb.com "Social Security Death Index Interactive Search," online at http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi; readings of grave markers at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Dubuque by The Phoenix Group, online at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iatpg/; and Dave Halm's geneaologies at Rootsweb.com, "Haverhill, Marshall County, Iowa; Menominee, JoDaviess Co. Illinois; Grant Co. Wisconsin: Kreis Lingen, Hanover, plus more," online at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=haverhill_iowa.


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