The Payette Enterprise
Thursday, April 07, 1910
DEATH OF MRS. LAUER
The sad news was received in Payette last Saturday of the death of Mrs. Bertha Lauer at four o'clock Friday afternoon in Salt Lake City where she had gone for the purpose of undergoing a serious operation for cancer of the stomach. About two years ago Mrs. Lauer fell and struck her breast on the edge of the bath tub and from the bruise a cancer of the breast developed. For this she underwent an operation last summer in Portland which at first gave promise of being successful and providing permanent relief. Blood poisoning however developed and later cancer of the stomach and though she went to Salt Lake for the purpose of submitting to another operation she never gained sufficient strength after the journey there to permit of it.
Mrs. Bertha Lauer has been a resident of Payette for twenty-three years and at the time of her death was in her sixty-fourth year. She was a bright, kindly old lady with many friends in this vicinity who will miss her in the thousand and one ways that aged people of a kindly; happy disposition endear themselves to their acquaintances. She leaves to mourn her loss four sons; James A., Edwin and Milt, of Payette, who are all prominent business men in this city, and Isaac, who at present is in far off Alaska and with whom the family have been unable to get in touch at this sad time. An only daughter, Mrs. Freudenthal, of Whitefish, Montana, is expected to arrive in Payette today.
A sister, Mrs. Paula Aads? of Salt Lake and a brother August Oberdoifer of Portland, both well known in Payette are also left to mourn the loss of a loving sister.
The funeral services will be conducted from the residence tomorrow afternoon at ten o'clock the Rev. Turner of the Presbyterian church having charge. The remains will be laid to rest in Riverside cemetery along side of the husband who preceded his wife to that better land some ten years ago.
