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Mrs. Katharina Isaak Died Here Tuesday

Death came to Mrs. Katharina Isaak, 81, Hazen, North Dakota, a long time Mercer County resident Tuesday morning, April 28, 1953, at the Hazen Memorial Hospital, where she had been a patient for only one day.

Funeral services have been set for Monday afternoon, May 4, at two o’clock at the Peace Lutheran Church of Hazen with Rev. T. F. Doyen officiating.  Internment will be made in Lutheran Cemetery near Pick City, North Dakota.  Six grandsons of the deceased will act as pallbearers.

Mrs. Isaak, the daughter of Philip Breitling and Karoline Strobel, was born in South Russia November 5, 1871.  Coming to the United States in 1889, she was married to August Isaak at Parkston, South Dakota, on April 30, 1892.  The came to Mercer County in October of 1894, homesteading five miles northwest of Hazen.  In the fall of 1900 they moved to Mannhaven to a farm 23 miles northeast of Hazen.  Mrs. Isaak had made her home in Hazen since 1938.  Mr. Isaak died in 1933.

She is survived by five sons, David, Fred, and Herbert Isaak, Hazen; Richard Isaak, of Bismarck; and Arthur Isaak of Center; five daughters, Mrs. Reinhold (Elizabeth) Guenthner and Mrs. Theodore (Anna) Huber of Hazen, Mrs. Reinie (Esther) Schmoll of Laurel, Montana, and Mrs. Eldor (Hilda) Bohrer, of Valley City; five brothers, John Breitling of McCook, Nebraska, Emanuel Breitling of Golden Valley, Arndt Breitling of Sidney, Montana, August Breitling of Trenton, Nebraska and Jacob Breitling of New Plymouth, Idaho; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Zeller, of Missoula, Montana, and Mrs. Jacob Knewll of Hazen; 59 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren.

Many Here Monday For Mrs. Isaak’s Funeral services were held

When funeral services for Mrs. Katharina (Grandma) Isaak were held her Monday at the Peace Lutheran Church, a great many of her 123 direct descendants and friends were here to pay their last respects.

The date of her funeral, May 4, 1953, was also the date of her Confirmation, which took place 68 years ago.  Mrs. Isaak died here April 28, 1953.

Among out-of-town relatives and friends here for her funeral were:  Mr. and Mrs. August Breitling of Trenton, Nebraska; Mr. and Mrs. Arndt Breitling and Mrs. Mike Herman, of Sidney, Montana; Mr. and Mrs. William Breitling, Mrs. G. J. Breitling and Walter Esch of McCook, Nebraska; Mrs. Reinhard Hinz, of Indiania, Nebraska; Mrs. Reiny Schmoll and Paulette, of Laurel, Montana.

Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold Guenthner and Duane of Silesin, Montana; Miss Frieda Guenthner of Billings, Montana; Mrs. Gerald Mastin, of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Isaak, Mrs. William Isaak, Mrs. D. Wudel and Mrs. Helena Schelske of Parkston, South Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. Gotthilf Isaak, Mr. and Mrs. Em Breitling and Mrs. G. Quast, of Golden Valley, North Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Isaak, Mrs. Roland Wagner, Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Bohrer and Wilbur and Herman Isaak, of Bismarck, North Dakota.

Alfred Isaak, Mr. and Mrs. Theo Isaak, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Isaak, Mrs. Carolina Weisz and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Isaak, of Dodge, North Dakota; Calvin and Reuben Isaak of Jamestown, North Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Weisz and Mrs. Lydia Tschaekofske of Halliday, North Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Ziegler, Leonard Ziegler, Mr. and Mrs. Schuetz of Hebron, North Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. Eldor Bohrer and family of Valley City, North Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Isaak and family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Isaak and Bruce, of Center, North Dakota.

~Contributed by Stanley Sailer