Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2024 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Green Bay Advocate Thursday, 11 March 1880 Our people were shocked last Thursday, at the announcement of the death, on the day previous at Casco, of MRS. JOANNA CURTIN, wife of Hon. EDWARD DECKER, of that place. She was about 38 years of age, and died of Pneumonia, thought it is understood that she had been suffering for some time from what resembled consumption. She was an intelligent, cultivated lady, and made her woodland home attractive to all who passed that way on the road between here and Ahnapee. She was vivacious, amiable, and faithful in all the walks of life. We copy from the Ahnapee Re- cord some appropriate words which handsomely what we would also say: A newspaper's words of praise or sympathy can furnish little comfort for those robbed by the grim destroyer, whose visits are so certain to occur yet leave man uncertain as to the time, until it arrives. So brief the time and the com- panion of many years was a corpse! Many are the hearts to which she was dear, many are the lips that will volunteer words of sympathy and kind- ness in memory of her who was a true woman. The world is quick to forget those who walk in pri- vate paths of life after their places are filled with new characters, but those who lived beside the road along which she passed will ever have a kindly thought for her so long as memory retains a place for friendly acts and womanly virtues. She was the faithful wife, the true mother, the helpful neighbor and the courteous stranger, and her death was the sequel of her life - calm and peaceful without an effort. The funeral took place at the family home in Casco; and though efforts were made to gather the family there, some of them, including the two brothers and wives, arrived a few hours too late. Hon. JERE CURTIN, the older brother, came with his wife from Milwaukee, and the younger brother and wife came from Jamestown, Dak., all arriving, however, a few hours after the ceremony. ===========================================================================