Obituaries (December 6)

Bernhard J. Hausheer

Utica Saturday Globe, April 1920

 

Bernhard J. Hausheer

1852 - 1920

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  The funeral of Bernhard J. Hausheer was held Monday morning at 9:30 in S.t Paul's Church.  Rev. Father J.S. Tiernan celebrated a requiem high mass at which father J. Canfield, of Binghamton, was deacon and Father Sumott, assistant pastor of St. Paul's was sub-deacon, and William Redmond, master of ceremonies.  Mr. Hausheer passed away at his home, 88 Silver street, Thursday.  He had been an invalid for two years but maintained a brave spirit and manifested a keen interest in passing events until within a few hours of his death.  He was devoted to his family and to his church and cherished a hope that his health would improve.  Mr. Hausheer was born November 29, 1852, at Cham, Switzerland, coming to America in 1888 and locating in Illinois as a master mechanic with the Anglo Swiss Milk Company.  He remained with them until 1901, when he came to Norwich into the employ of the Borden Company in the same capacity, in which he continued until his death.  There survive one daughter, Catherine, of this city, and four sons, Emil, of Schenectady; Bernhard, of Howell, Mich., and Walter, of the international Health Board of New York city.  The funeral was largely attended on Monday, the bearers being Harry Sanford, Thomas Lawler, Edward Murphy, R. Giffin, J. Neville and Mr. Winters. The burial was made in St. Paul's Cemetery [Norwich, NY].

Catherine Keiser Hausheer

Norwich Sun, May 28, 1917

Mrs. Catherine Keiser Hausheer, wife of Bernhard Hausheer, entered into rest after a sickness of twelve weeks, at the family home at 80 Silver street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] Saturday afternoon, May 26, 1917, at 3:15 o'clock.  Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning. Rev. Father J.S. Tiernan will sing a requiem high mass at St. Paul's church at 9:30 o'clock and the services there will be attended by a large company of friends.  Interment will be made in St. Paul's cemetery [Norwich, NY].  Mrs. Hausheer was born in Zug, Switzerland, Dec. 6, 1857.  She was married to Bernhard Hausheer of Cham, Switzerland in 1879 and with her family came to this country in 1889 where they located at Dixson, Ill.  After a residence there of ten years, the family moved to Malvern, Pa., where they lived for two years before coming to this city [Norwich, NY] where she has been esteemed highly and is mourned sincerely.  Mrs. Hausheer was an ideal wife and mother, devoted to her home and her family, yet with a mother heart so big that it yearned over the poor, needy and sorrowing and she ministered unto them in quiet, secret charity, being mindful of many of those she had aided even during her last illness.  She was a devout member of St. Paul's Roman Catholic church and belonged to the Rosary society and the T.C.D.A.  She was also an almoner of the Norwich hospital.  Mrs. Housheer is survived by her husband and five children, Barnhard of Howell, Mich., Emil of Schenectady, Miss Catherine and Alfred of Norwich, and Dr. Walter Hausheer who is at Faxton hospital, Utica.  Two sisters also survive--Mrs. Mary Traxler of Zug, Switzerland, and Mrs. Verena Trottman, of Dixon, Ill.  The latter has been at the bedside of her sister for the past two weeks.

Nathan L. Briggs

Norwich Sun, May 28, 1917

The readers of the Sun will be interested and many of the older ones shocked to learn of the death of Nathan l. Briggs of Boonton, New Jersey, at the age of 72.  In 1892, Mr. Briggs became financially interested in the then struggling Norwich Pharmacal Co. and remained a stockholder up to the time of his death.  For ten years--1900 to 1910--he served as a member of the board of directors, being succeeded at that time by Robert S. Eaton.  He was a brother-in-law of Chas. B. Norris who, for some years was secretary and treasurer of the company and an uncle of Earnest N. Kerr, electrician who after spending ten years or more with the company returned to Boonton, N.J. about a year ago.  Mr. Briggs was prominent in the business and civic life of his home town and according to the Boonton Times, its leading citizen.  At the time of his death, in addition to minor offices held, he was president of the Boonton Building & Loan Association, vice president o the Boonton National Bank and trustee of the Boonton cemetery.  For two years, he served as mayor of his home town and at his obsequies Arcana lodge F&AM honored the memory of its oldest member.  While Mr. Briggs was never a resident of Norwich, his active interest in its business life and his acquaintance with many of tis citizens renders his passing an event of sorrow and regret to the city at large.

Dwight H. Hall

Norwich Sun, April 8, 1920

Entered into rest at  his home in Preston, N.Y. [Chenango Co.] March 29, 1920, Dwight H. Hall, aged nearly 57 years, a well known and highly respected farmer of that place.  Mr. Hall was one of the five children of Carlos and Hannah Crandall Hall, the other children being George, who resides in East Pharsalia; Ida, who died at the age of 5 years; Minnie, the wife of Homer L. Brown of Norwich and Myrtle Hall Cleveland, who died in 1913.  The deceased was born April 21, 1863 on the farm where his last days were spent and where he lived practically all of his life, excepting a few years spent in East Pharsalia and Norwich.  On October 10, 1889 he was united in marriage to Lillian Felton of East Pharsalia, who survives, together with the following children:  Victor, Ethel and Ruth of Norwich; Mrs. Zilpha Levee of Smyrna, and Archie and Mary of Preston.  Mr. Hall had been ill for several months with heart trouble and complications. The funeral was largely attended at his late home on Thursday afternoon, April 1st, the services being conducted by the Rev. William Swope of Preston.  Burial was made in the Lewis cemetery. The floral offerings were many testifying to the regard in which he was held by friends and neighbors alike.