Obit of Mrs. William (Marie) Hoppe 1942
From the Chatsworth Plaindealer
Chatsworth,Livingston,Illinois
MRS. MARIE HOPPE
JANUARY 29, 1942
Mrs. Marie Hoppe, 91, died in a Bloomington Hospital this morning about 1 o'clock from injuries she received the previous night in a fall down the basement steps of her home in Chatsworth. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon from the home at 1:30 and the Chatsworth Lutheran Church at 2 o'clock with the Rev. A.F. Karsten in charge. Burial will be in the Chatsworth Cemetery.
Mrs. Hoppe had gotten up about 4 o'clock Wednesday morning and mistook the door leading to the basement for the one to the toilet and fell to the landing. Her daughter, Mrs. Theodore Gerdes and husband, who came recently to live with Mrs. Hoppe, heard the noise of the fall and found Mrs. Hoppe conscious both with both wrists broken and injuries on her head. She was taken to the Bloomington Hospital in the Roach Ambulance. Physicians did not think she was injured internally and that death was due largely to shock and advanced age.
She was born in Germany October 15, 1859, and came to America when 17 years old to Danforth. She met William Hoppe and was married to him. He was a blacksmith in Danforth at that time and later the family came to Charlotte, in both of which villiages Mr. Hoppe conducted a blacksmith shop. Later they moved to a farm they had acquired west of Charlotte and some 22 years ago retired to Chatsworth. Mr. Hoppe died 17 years ago and for some time following the marriage of her daughter, Marie, now deceased, she resided alone. A few months ago when her eyesight began to fail, her daughter, Mrs. Julia Gerdes, and husband came from Indiana to reside with her.
She was a woman beloved by all her acquaintances and regardless of her advanced age, retained her keen intellect to the end.
Surviving are three sons and two daughters, namely: Adolph Hoppe of Genoa, Illinois; Herman Hoppe of Kingston, Illinois; and George Hoppe of Chicago. The daughters are Mrs. Sena Jacobs of Dixon, Illinois and Mrs. Julia Gerdes of Chatsworth. Three children, Anton, William and Marie, preceded their mother in death.