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Old 02-25-2016, 04:44 AM
 
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
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Does anyone know what this says? It's in German.
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Old 02-25-2016, 06:03 AM
 
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It is an obituary.
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Old 02-25-2016, 06:27 AM
 
Location: Monnem Germany/ from San Diego
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I will have a go, seems to be an obituary in a German newspaper regarding an immigrant living in Chicago

Friends and acquaintances the sad news, my beloved wife and our good mother Wilhelmina Haidt 5325 N. Paulina Streeet, on 14 june 1937 (Not sure I have a had time reading the Gothic letters I read it as Sanft(Gently) Something like Eingeschlafen (Went to sleep) a bit of a guess but passed away gently is what is meant.

Funeral / Wake Thursday 17 June at 3 in the Afternoon. in the Lain and Gons Chappel, 5501 N. Ashland Ave. Burial at Rosehill cemetery. Silent condolences to the those left behind.
William Haidt, Husband Ms. Harold C Morgan, Ms. Victor Helming from Louisville and Ms. Carl Wildgrube, Daughter
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Old 02-25-2016, 06:34 AM
 
Location: Monnem Germany/ from San Diego
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I found Carl Wildgrube Carl Wildgrube in the 1940 Census | Ancestry
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Old 02-25-2016, 11:03 AM
 
Location: SoCal again
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It is a newspaper ad placed by family members in 1937 that says that this lady, a mother (has daughters) and beloved wife, peacefully died in her sleep and where the funeral will be hosted.
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Old 02-26-2016, 05:21 PM
 
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
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Thank you so much.(It was my Great Grandmother)
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