ROSE CLARA SPEH KAISER was the second wife of MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER, and mother of four sons and a stillborn daughter. Baptized at the Shrine of St. Joseph in downtown St. Louis, and educated at St. Agatha's School and S.S. Peter & Paul High School, ROSE later worked as a milliner (hat maker) for the St. Louis "Beer Society" (brewery families) on South Broadway. She counted the Busch, Lemp, Anheuser, Feuerbacher, Griesedieck and Sassenthaler brewing families among her many customers.
ROSE was very active in the Ladies Sodality at the old St. Augustine's Church at Hebert and Lismore Streets in north St. Louis and later at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in South St. Louis. ROSE married MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER (1878-1947), widowed husband of her close friend the late JOSEPHINE LEIBINGER (1884-1913), at St. Francis DeSales Church in South St. Louis in October, 1915. ROSE lived with MAX her entire married life, firstly at 3215-17 Natural Bridge Ave. (one block east of N. Grand Blvd.) in the Fairgrounds neighborhood, and later at 4941 Finkman Street in the Southtown/Princeton Heights neighborhood. In her final years she resided at a Catholic nursing home in Southwest St. Louis.
During her 32-year long marriage, she had five children with MAX, four boys---Msgr. GEROLD J. (named after her paternal uncle, the mayor of Sigmaringen, Germany GEROLD SPEH), LEO M. (named for her brother, LEO H. SPEH), FRANCIS X.,Sr.(named for her father FRANZ X. SPEH), and MAXIMILIAN S. Sr. (named for her husband MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER), and an infant girl who died stillborn, MARIA.
Her death from "advanced infirmities of old age" in August, 1969 was a testimony to her remarkable strength and will. A devout Catholic woman, Mrs. Kaiser went to daily Mass consistently until her late years.
ROSE was very active in the Ladies Sodality at the old St. Augustine's Church at Hebert and Lismore Streets in north St. Louis and later at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in South St. Louis. ROSE married MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER (1878-1947), widowed husband of her close friend the late JOSEPHINE LEIBINGER (1884-1913), at St. Francis DeSales Church in South St. Louis in October, 1915. ROSE lived with MAX her entire married life, firstly at 3215-17 Natural Bridge Ave. (one block east of N. Grand Blvd.) in the Fairgrounds neighborhood, and later at 4941 Finkman Street in the Southtown/Princeton Heights neighborhood. In her final years she resided at a Catholic nursing home in Southwest St. Louis.
During her 32-year long marriage, she had five children with MAX, four boys---Msgr. GEROLD J. (named after her paternal uncle, the mayor of Sigmaringen, Germany GEROLD SPEH), LEO M. (named for her brother, LEO H. SPEH), FRANCIS X.,Sr.(named for her father FRANZ X. SPEH), and MAXIMILIAN S. Sr. (named for her husband MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER), and an infant girl who died stillborn, MARIA.
Her death from "advanced infirmities of old age" in August, 1969 was a testimony to her remarkable strength and will. A devout Catholic woman, Mrs. Kaiser went to daily Mass consistently until her late years.
ROSE CLARA SPEH KAISER was the second wife of MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER, and mother of four sons and a stillborn daughter. Baptized at the Shrine of St. Joseph in downtown St. Louis, and educated at St. Agatha's School and S.S. Peter & Paul High School, ROSE later worked as a milliner (hat maker) for the St. Louis "Beer Society" (brewery families) on South Broadway. She counted the Busch, Lemp, Anheuser, Feuerbacher, Griesedieck and Sassenthaler brewing families among her many customers.
ROSE was very active in the Ladies Sodality at the old St. Augustine's Church at Hebert and Lismore Streets in north St. Louis and later at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in South St. Louis. ROSE married MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER (1878-1947), widowed husband of her close friend the late JOSEPHINE LEIBINGER (1884-1913), at St. Francis DeSales Church in South St. Louis in October, 1915. ROSE lived with MAX her entire married life, firstly at 3215-17 Natural Bridge Ave. (one block east of N. Grand Blvd.) in the Fairgrounds neighborhood, and later at 4941 Finkman Street in the Southtown/Princeton Heights neighborhood. In her final years she resided at a Catholic nursing home in Southwest St. Louis.
During her 32-year long marriage, she had five children with MAX, four boys---Msgr. GEROLD J. (named after her paternal uncle, the mayor of Sigmaringen, Germany GEROLD SPEH), LEO M. (named for her brother, LEO H. SPEH), FRANCIS X.,Sr.(named for her father FRANZ X. SPEH), and MAXIMILIAN S. Sr. (named for her husband MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER), and an infant girl who died stillborn, MARIA.
Her death from "advanced infirmities of old age" in August, 1969 was a testimony to her remarkable strength and will. A devout Catholic woman, Mrs. Kaiser went to daily Mass consistently until her late years.
ROSE was very active in the Ladies Sodality at the old St. Augustine's Church at Hebert and Lismore Streets in north St. Louis and later at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in South St. Louis. ROSE married MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER (1878-1947), widowed husband of her close friend the late JOSEPHINE LEIBINGER (1884-1913), at St. Francis DeSales Church in South St. Louis in October, 1915. ROSE lived with MAX her entire married life, firstly at 3215-17 Natural Bridge Ave. (one block east of N. Grand Blvd.) in the Fairgrounds neighborhood, and later at 4941 Finkman Street in the Southtown/Princeton Heights neighborhood. In her final years she resided at a Catholic nursing home in Southwest St. Louis.
During her 32-year long marriage, she had five children with MAX, four boys---Msgr. GEROLD J. (named after her paternal uncle, the mayor of Sigmaringen, Germany GEROLD SPEH), LEO M. (named for her brother, LEO H. SPEH), FRANCIS X.,Sr.(named for her father FRANZ X. SPEH), and MAXIMILIAN S. Sr. (named for her husband MAXIMILIAN J. KAISER), and an infant girl who died stillborn, MARIA.
Her death from "advanced infirmities of old age" in August, 1969 was a testimony to her remarkable strength and will. A devout Catholic woman, Mrs. Kaiser went to daily Mass consistently until her late years.
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