EMILIE (nee KOHRS) PHILLIPSON

EMILIE KOHRS

1858-1943

Johann & Johanna Kohrs, their daughter Emilie (nee Kohrs) Phillipson, granddaughter Juanita (nee Phillipson) Lambert and their great grand son Don Lambert on his knee.

EMILIE KOHRS married WILLIAM PHILLIPSON on January 2, 1883. She was the first child born of Henry Kohrs. She lived most of her married life in Chicago. In November of 1925, she and her sister Bertha Kohrs and the Gehrmanns, completed an "around the world" tour. Emilie died at the home of a daughter, Juanita (nee Phillipson) Lambert (Mrs. Hill Griffith in Hartford Connecticut) at the age of eighty-four. The funeral was held in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Surviving were four children, Mrs. Griffith, Hugo Phillipson of New York City, William and Mrs. Nita Lambert, both of Milwaukee (obit)