Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1909 — MRS. RALPH FENDIG DEAD. [ARTICLE]

MRS. RALPH FENDIG DEAD.

j\Mrs. Frederica Fendig, widow of rhe late Ralph Fendlg, died in the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago, at 7 o’clock Saturday morning and the remains were brought to Rensselaer on the milk train Saturday evening and taken to the residence to await burial. Mrs. Fendlg had been in poor health for the past two years, and a few weeks ago was taken to the hospital for treatment, but to no avail. All her children were at her bedside .when the end came. X The funeral was held Sunday 'afternoon from the residence, conducted by Dr. Wolf of Lafayette, a Jewish Rabbi, and Interment made in Weston cemetery. Deceased was born in Bavari, Germany, Oct. 30, .*842, and came to America in 1861, locating at Lewiston, Me., where she lived with her brother. From there she went to Milwaukee where she was married to Ralph Fendlg and they went to Chicago to live, at which place her two eldest children were born.' Later they came tt> Rensselaer where where she had lived for many years. Her husband died about two years ago. She leaves one daughter and four sons—Mrs, Tillie Borchardt of Tam-

pa, Fla.; Benjamin F. and Samuel of Rensselaer; Albert of Brunswick, Ga.; and Louis R. of Jacksonville, Fla. She also leaves three sisters— Mrs. Caroline Hexter and Mrs. Johanna Oppenheimer of New Orleans, and Mrs. Nathan Fendig of Rensselaer.