SHEEL, Frederica (Beu) - b. August 30, 1848 - d. May 30, 1928

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(From the Moline Advance, Thursday June 7, 1928)

Frederica Beu was born August 30, 1848, in Province, New Forpommen, Northern Germany.  She united in marriage to Fredrick Sheel, July 19, 1867.  Mr. and Mrs. Sheel came to Elk county fifty years ago and settled on a farm, later moving to Moline, where Mr. Sheel passed away December 27, 1927.  Since that time Mrs. Sheel and her daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Cook have resided together in the family home.

Mrs. Sheel has been failing in health for several years but was a woman of remarkable strength of character and bore the care of Mr. Sheel during his last years, as well as her own sufferings with a high degree of courage.  She was a life long member of the Lutheran church, and found daily comfort in the knowledge that her God was always near.  Often during her intense pain she would call upon her loved ones to pray that she might have strength to bear patiently all that God called her to bear.

She passed from this life May 30, 1928, at her home in Moline, Kansas, survived by two sons, Frank Sheel, Moline, Kansas, and Henry Sheel, Earlton, Kansas; three daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Cook, Moline, Kansas, Mrs. Lillie Fickle, Howard, Kansas, Mrs. Ed Adams, Boulder, Colorado; one foster daughter, Mrs. Walter Street, Moline.  Also two brothers, Will Beu, Delaware, Oklahoma, Christian Beu, Moline, and one sister, Mrs. Sophia Krohn, Moline and seventeen grandchildren and twenty-three great granchildren.

Her years were almost four score and they are accomplished, but she is not dead, for such lives never die.  They are a part of the imperishable things over which death has no power.

Funeral services were held in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Friday afternoon and burian was in the Moline cemetery.