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Gackle Tri-County News, ND
June 5, 1969
RIVINIUS SERVICE HELD WEDNESDAY
Mrs. Katherina Rivinius, 85, pioneer and longtime resident
of the Streeter, N.D.,
community died late Saturday evening, May 31, 1969 at the
Hi-Acres Manor Nursing
Home in Jamestown, N.D., where she had resided for about
nine months.
Katherina Grenz was born October 15, 1883 in South Russia,
the daughter of
Gottfried Grenz and Katherine Haverly Grenz. She attended
school in her native land
and came to the United States with her parents in the year
1894, when they settled
near Venturia, N.D., where she grew to womanhood. The
family moved to a farm seven
miles northwest of Gackle in Stutsman County in 1906.
On March 4, 1907, she and Conrad Rivinius were married at
Napoleon, N.D.
They lived on the family homestead twelve miles northwest
of Streeter in
Tanner Township for about fourteen months and then moved
to a farm five
miles southeast of Streeter, where they farmed until 1920
when they moved
into Streeter. In Streeter her husband operated the
Streeter Light Plant
until he became engaged in the pool hall business, which
he operated until
1942 when he retired. Following the death of her husband
on April 10, 1947,
she continued to live in Streeter. Due to chronic illness
she was
hospitalized September 12, 1967 at the Gackle Hospital,
where she remained
until September 12, 1968 when she entered the Hi-Acres
Manor Nursing Home in Jamestown.
Surviving are five children: Gust Rivinius of Lockeford,
Calif.; Matilda
(Mrs. Walter Enzminger) of Lodi, Calif.; Otilda (Mrs.
Wayne Noyes) of
Mandan, N.D.; Leona (Mrs. Milton Schwartzwalter) of
Minneapolis, Minn.;
Alice (Mrs. Alvin Dewald) of Streeter, N.D.; seven
children, seven great-grandchildren,
one brother, Ausef Grenz of Lockeford, Calif.
She was preceded in death by her parents , her husband,
one son, Arthur in 1931, four
brothers and one sister. (A brother Ferdinand Grenz died
May 24, 1969).
The funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday,
June 4, 1969 at the United
Methodist Church in Streeter with Rev. R. C. Stading,
pastor of the Grace Baptist Church
in Gackle officiating. Burial was in the Streeter Cemetery
at Streeter. Haut Funeral
Home in Gackle was in charge of arrangements
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