Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1908 — Mere About Dr. Wildberg’s Death. [ARTICLE]
Mere About Dr. Wildberg’s Death.
The remains of Dr. Jacob Wildberg, who died last Friday night at Colgate, Okla., where he was prac- J ticlng dentistry, arrived here Sunday night on the 11:04 train, being accompanied here from Chicago by the dead young man’s sister, Miss Edna Wildberg, of Chicago, and his aunt, ' Mrs. Dr. Weil, of Peoria, 111. Mrs. I Wildberg, his wife, stopped in Chicago until uiis morning with her mother, Mrs. Selig, who today accompanied her here. His mother, Mrs. Louis Wildberg, ■who was bereft by the death of her husband only a few weeks ago, was so prostrated by the news of her son’s death that she was unable to come here and, in fact, her condition is such that her sister, Mrs. Eliza Spangler, remained at Peoria to care for her. Although Dr. Wildberg had been feeling poorly for som§ time he did not take to his bed until ten days before his death. Typhoid fever was the cause of his death. . The funeral was held from the residence of Mrs. Anna Tuteur at 1:30 o’clock this Monday .afternoon, being conducted by Rabbi Abraham Hershberg, of Chicago, Interment was made in Weston cemetery beside the grave of his father. Among those attending the funeral was J. Schloss, of Auburn; Milton Selig, of Ligonier, and several others.
