Herman Henry Wisker, 66, died at his home, 206 East Thirteenth Street, Wednesday night. The funeral will be held Saturday morning at the Mother of God Cemetery.

   A 91-year-old Newport woman and her 63-year-old Covington daughter, whose birthdays were one day apart, died Tuesday within four hours and 45 minutes of each other.
   Mrs. Kate Mary Bitters, the mother, died at 4 p. m. in her home, 103 East Third Street, while the daughter, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hellmann Wischer, 1613 Garrard Street, died in St. Elizabeth Hospital at 8:45 p. m. Mrs. Bitters was born March 8, while Mrs. Wischer was born one day and 28 years later.
   Mrs. Wischer, who had been ill two weeks and died in an oxygen tent, had not been told of her mother's death. Mrs. Bitters succumbed after a brief illness.

    Mrs. Bitters, who was born in Germany, lived most of her life in northern Kentucky. She leaves five sons, Joseph, Henry, Charles and Ernest Bitters, all of Covington, and Henry Hellmann, of Cincinnati; two daughters, Mrs. Emma Geilen, of Covington, and Mrs. Leona Moore, of Newport, and one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Bauer [sic], of Cincinnati.

    Mrs. Wischer, a native of Covington, leaves her husband, William T. Wischer, and four children. They are Mary Wischer, of Covington; Mrs. Fred Nichols, of Detroit; William H. Wischer, Covington, fireman, and Richard Wischer, of Ft. Wright. There are eight grandchildren.

    Double funeral services were being planned Wednesday for a 91-year-old Newport woman and her 63-year-old daughter, a resident of Covington, who died a few hours apart Tuesday.

    Mrs. Kate Mary Bitters, 91, 103 East Third street, Newport, died at 4 p. m., at her home, and the daughter, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hellman Wischer, 63, 1613 Garrard Street, Covington, succumbed at 8:45 p. m., at St. Elizabeth Hospital.

    Services will be held at the Henry Linnemann Sons funeral home, 25 East Eleventh street, Covington, Friday at 8:30 a. m., with double church services tentatively planned to follow at St. Benedict Church, Covington. Both were members of the Alter and Married Ladies Society of St. Benedict Church, and those organizations will hold prayer services Thursday at 8:15 p. m., at the funeral home.

    Mrs. Bitters, a native of Germany, came to the United States 66 years ago, living most of her life in Covington. She leaves two other daughters, Mrs. Leona Moore, Newport, and Mrs. Emma Geilen, Covington, five sons, Joseph, Henry, Charles and Ernest Bitters, all of Covington, and Henry Hellmann, Cincinnati; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Bauer [sic], Cincinnati; 23 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
 Mrs. Wischer leaves her husband, William T. Wischer; two sons, William H. Wischer, Covington, and Richard J. Wischer, Ft. Wright, and two daughters, Miss Mary Wischer, Covington, and Mrs. Fred Nichols, Detroit.

WISCHER
Christine C. (nee Carrico), beloved wife of the late Richard J. Wischer. Loving mother of Patricia (Hugo) Rasp, Richard W. (Mary Ann) Wischer and Gerald s. (Catherine) Wischer. Also survived by ten grand and 16 great grandchildren. Dear sister of Anna Letha Kinzer and Anna Rita Raley. Preceded in death by two brothers and four sisters. Saturday, December 4, 2004. Age 93 years. Visitation Friday from 9:30 A.M. until time of Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 A.M. at St. Catherine's Church (Westwood). memorials may be made to Hospice of Cincinnati. www.neidhardminges.com