Laube - Emilie Jahnke
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 14 May 1957 p 4
Mrs. Emilie Otelie Laube, age 85, a resident of Fountain County for more than 50 years, died at 12 o'clock noon Monday, May 13, in the Small Nursing Home at Waynetown, where she had made her home the past 10 months. A native of Germany, she was born Dec. 10, 1871, to Ernst and Caroline Abend Jahnke. Her husband, William Laube, whom she married in March, 1897, died March 6, 1946. Mrs. Laube came to this county in 1896 or 1897 and had lived in Fountain County ever since. She lived in Hillsboro until 1910, when she moved to the Portland Arch community. She was member of the Fountain Christian Church and a charter member of the Willing Workers Class. She was the last of a family of five. She is survived by two sons, Emil Jahnke of Hillsboro and Leopold Laube of Covington Rt. 1; two daughters, Mrs. Martha Bailey of Veedersburg and Mrs. Ella Beavers of Stone Bluff, 13 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Fountain Christian Church at Portland Arch, where the body laid in state for an hour prior to the rites. The Rev. Gerald Durre, pastor of the First Church of Christ of Fifth Street, officiated and burial was in the Fountain Cemetery. Pallbearers were: John Laube, Ralph Epperson, Kenneth Hershberger, Carl Jahnke, Ernest Jahnke, Bill Beavers, Gerald Beavers and Omer Neal. --typed by Walt W