MRS. SCHERER'S FUNERAL YESTERDAY
FROM ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH AT NINE O'CLOCK
Had lived in This City 56 years
One of the Earliest Settlers in Oconto - She lived a Useful and Christian Life.
The funeral of Mrs.. Mary Ann Scherer, whose death was announced in the Enterprise of Tuesday, was held from St. Joseph's church yesterday morning at nine o'clock and was very largely attended. Interment was had in the Catholic cemetery.
Mary Ann Dietrich was born in Germany, September 12, 1830, and when about ten years old came to Green Bay with her parents. In December of 1850 she was married at Little Chute to Henry Scherer and five years later they removed to this city, making their home in the South Ward,
Mr. Scherer's death occurring seventeen years ago. To them were born eleven children, seven of whom survive their mother. Two of the boys, John and Antone, Make their home at Marinette but the other children all reside in this city. They are Mathais, Jacob, Mrs. A.E. Whittaker, Mrs. D.T. Keefe and Miss Henrietta Scherer. Twelve grandchildren also survive her. She was a kind and loving mother and earnest Christian. Her loss will be deeply felt by a large number of friends over the city.
Mrs. Scherer during her residence of fifty-six years saw Oconto grow from a few buildings scattered through the woods along the river to the substantial city it is today. It is to such sturdy pioneers, fast falling away, that we owe so much. If we of the present generation can do our work as well as they, Oconto will be a city we may be justly proud of. [Oconto Enterprise]