Leah Rosewater

Leah Colman Rosewater BIRTH 5 Oct 1843 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA DEATH 28 Jul 1914 (aged 70) BURIAL Forest Lawn Memorial Park Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA PLOT interment # 12656, section 21, lot # 147, grave # 2 MEMORIAL ID 69495453 ·

MRS. E. ROSEWATER DIES FOLLOWING AN INJURY
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Fell Several Weeks Ago and Fractured Her Hip -- Never Recovered.
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Was for Many Years Untiring Worker for Charities of the City.
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Mrs. Rosewater, wife of the late Edward Rosewater, succumbed at 12:30 o’clock this noon to the effects of an injury sustained several weeks ago when she fell and fractured her hip. Following the accident, Mrs. Rosewater made no progress toward recovery and later complications arose which, with the intensely hot weather, caused her decease.

Mrs. Rosewater was born in Cleveland, O., in October, 1842. Following her marriage to Edward Rosewater, then a young telegrapher, the couple lived for nineteen years in a little cottage at Seventeenth and Farnam street on the present site of the Bee building. It was there that her five children, Victor, Charles, Mrs. Milton B. Newman, Mrs. N. P. Fell and Mrs. Charles S. Elgutter (the latter deceased), was born.

She was for many years anfailing worker for the charities of the city, though one who never sought prominence. Her social career in Omaha began many years ago on a bleak November night at a Thanksgiving ball in the old Herndon house, and continued up to the time of Mr. Rosewater’s death in August, 1906.

For several years she has resided with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Fell. She was seventy-one years of age. No arrangements for the funeral have as yet been made.

source of obituary, article included a portrait (verbatim inscription, including misspelled text): Evening World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska), July 28, 1914, page 1, column 3, article continued on page 8, column 3

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FUNERAL SERVICE FOR MRS. ROSEWATER
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Interment to Be in Forest Lawn by the Side of Her Husband.
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The funeral of Mrs. Leah Rosewater, wife of the late Edward Rosewater, founder of the Omaha Bee, who died Tuesday noon, will be held from the home of her daughter, Mrs. N. P. Fell, 502 South Thirty-sixth street, this morning at 9:30 o’clock.

Then Rev. Luther M. Kuhns, an old friend of the family and acting pastor of the Kountze Memorial church, will officiate, in the absence of Rabbi Cohn of Temple Israel, who is out of the city. Interment will be at Forest Lawn cemetery, in the same plat where her husband’s body was laid to rest.

The friends of the family have been invited to attend the funeral services at the house, but are requested not to send flowers. The funeral services be private.

The pallbearers will be: William H. Koenig, Vito Buresh, Henry Hiller, Charles S. Ellgutter, T. W. McCullough and Dwight Williams.

Word has been received that Dr. Nathan Rosewater, brother of the late Edward Rosewater, and his wife, with Miss Belle Colman, a sister of Mrs. Edward Rosewater, will be here from Cincinnati. Many messages of sympathy have been received from friends all over the country.

source of funeral notice (verbatim inscription): Morning World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska), July 30, 1914, page 2, column 3