When on Saturday last, we spoke of the successful removal of the ovarian tumor from Mrs. A. Lohr, and the hopes entertained of her final recovery, we indicated doubts as to the realization of the hopes. Like nine out of every ten women who subject themselves to the operation, Mrs. Lohr was unable to rally and on Monday evening last, despite the most skillful medical attention Chicago could furnish, she died. While her death will be deeply and sincerely mourned, it is true nevertheless, that her affliction was one for which there is no known cure. It was her special desire, we understand, to undergo the operation. Without it her existence would have been prolonged but a few months. The operation could do nothing more than hasten the inevitable, and it offered the only known way to reach a cure. The body, in charge of the bereaved husband, will be brought to Cairo today, at 2 o’clock p.m. Funeral notice tomorrow.
The funeral notice of Mrs. A. Lohr appears in another column. The
procession will move from Mr. Lohr’s residence, on Eighth Street, at 1
o’clock p.m., and move to the Lutheran church on Thirteenth Street, from
whence, after service, the remains will be escorted to the train, which will
be in waiting at the foot of Twelfth Street, to convey them to Villa Ridge.
FUNERAL of Mrs. Andrew Lohr will leave residence at one o’clock sharp,
and go to the German Lutheran Church, on Thirteenth Street. Train will leave
Twelfth Street for Villa Ridge at 2:30 p.m.
The funeral procession that escorted the remains of Mrs. A. Lohr from the
church to the train and attended them to the grave was one of the largest
that has been seen in the city for several years. The five coaches in
waiting to carry the friends to Villa Ridge were filled to repletion. The
general and genuine sympathy thus manifested must have been gratefully
received by the bereaved husband and other members of deceased’s family. ...
The large attendance at the funeral services of Mrs. A. Lohr,
deceased, held in the Lutheran church, yesterday, furnished a gratifying
proof of the high esteem in which deceased was held by those who knew her.
But while she is thus deeply lamented, it is scarcely probable that she
would, were it a matter of will with her, return to the life of suffering
from which death has freed her. All that money and medical skill could do
for her relief was freely done, but without avail. We are told that a number
of years ago, she addressed an eminent German surgeon, in the old country,
intending to make the trip across the ocean to undergo the operation that
recently resulted in her death, if the answer gave her any encouragement.
The surgeon replied that the chances against her recovery from so fearful an
ordeal were not less than 59 out of 60. Hence, when she left Cairo for
Chicago, she well knew that the probabilities were quite all against her
return alive. She must have felt that she was going out to her death. But
the meager hope of escaping the life that was no longer tolerable,
encouraged her to assume the risk.
Contributed 25 Aug 2019 by Jo Ann Block Ramseyer
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