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Portrait of Katharina Margaretha Weber
In loving memory

Katharina Margaretha Weber

May 19, 1837 – November 5, 1916
Lived 79 years
Quincy Valley Cemetery · Quincy, Washington
Life story

Mrs. Katherine Margaret Weber, mother of Adam Weber and Mrs Fred Reitner and a sister of Wentel Woitt, died Sunday at her home at Quincy after a short attack of pneumonia. Mrs Weber was one of the early settlers in this part of the country, coming here with her husband and family years ago and later settling in the Quincy country. She was 79 years of age when she died and leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, four sons, three of which reside at Quincy, and a daughter, forty-four grand children and twenty-four great grand children. Funeral services were conducted at Quincy Wednesday, Rev A. Reiman officiating. Messrs and Mesdames Wentel Woitt, Adam Weber, Fred Reitner, Conrad Walter, George Ils, Henry Giese and Jacob Homborg, all went from Odessa to attend the funeral.

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1837
Born May 19
1838
Katharina was 1 when the Great Western, the first steamship built for crossing the Atlantic, set out on its first voyage
1848
Katharina was 11 when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California
1853
Katharina was 16 when Congress created Washington Territory
1861
Katharina was 24 when the University of Washington opened in Seattle
1879
Katharina was 42 when Thomas Edison demonstrated a long-lasting light bulb
1886
Katharina was 49 when Coca-Cola was first sold at a drugstore in Atlanta
1893
Katharina was 56 when the Great Northern Railway drove its last spike in the Cascades
1907
Katharina was 70 when Quincy incorporated as a town
1914
Katharina was 77 when World War I began in Europe
1916
Passed away November 5, age 79
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The Weber name at Quincy Valley Cemetery

Johann Adam Weber1835 – 1920 Christian Weber1858 – 1934 Anna Margaret Weber1859 – 1913 Jacob W Weber Sr.1876 – 1961 Heinrich Weber1878 – 1968 Conrad Weber1880 – 1969
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