KREUSCH, Eliza - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Covington, March 24 – Today Covington mourns the death of Mrs. Eliza Kreusch, aged 79 years, a loved, respected and life-long resident of the city. Her death occurred at the Kreusch home, East. Harrison Street at 3:30 o’clock Monday morning after a long illness. For many years she had been an invalid, and there was no hope for her recovery from the absolute certainty of life-long suffering, she could anticipate no relief except for death. But with all this there never was a more Christian spirit, a more sun-like life. She accepted her fate with a cheerfulness that is an example of all mankind. No one can contemplate her life and honestly find reason to complain of his own. She was a gentle mother whose ineffable love and constant sweetness descended like warm sunshine upon her devoted children and found them tightly to her. She lived for them. They were her one great moving thought.  It was her supreme pleasure to see her love reflected from their eyes, to laugh with them, to weep with them, to pray wit them – ah, these were the fountains of her joy, the springs of the life she thought worth while living. From this inspiring intimacy between the mother and her children there grew up a something that the word love does not seem to express, a something purer than the breath of the flower, a something sweeter than the human dream of heaven. To the children the mother became more than mother – a saint and her smallest wish was their heart’s desire.  After years of patient suffering her eyes grew tired. Pain entered into the body, making feeble the feet and distorting the soft embracing hands. But that wonderful patience which had been her great charm did not desert her. Calmly and without complaint she suffered the tortures of the flesh and in the hours of her poignant distress she yet had smiles and sweet words for her children and loved ones. Her crippled hands were not too paining to stop the soft stroke upon their heads. But at last, like as a child in mother’s arms she softly fell asleep and those who stood around her couch, could only look and weep.  On her face the smile remained as in all former years – a source of sacred joy to all and yet a cause for tears. At last unconsciousness comes, and the gentle mother sleeps. The many friends and acquaintances of this good woman will feel a more than ordinary sense of the loss in the passing of a personality which was so inspiring. Deceased was the widow of the late William Kreusch who died in this city several years ago. Six daughters and one son survive. They are: Mrs. William Ryan; Mrs. John K. Evans; Mrs. John E. Martin; Mrs. Elmer Bowers; Mrs. Frank D. Smith; Miss Martha Kreusch and William Kreusch, all of this city. The funeral will be held at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock, interment following in the Catholic cemetery, Rev. Father FM Shea will officiate. - kbz