Long-time lobbyist Kitty Werthmann has passed away at the age of 96

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Very long-time Eagle Forum lobbyist Kitty Werthmann passed away on June 14th at the age of 96. While you may or may not have agreed with her, none doubted her commitment to the cause of freedom in South Dakota:

Mathilde Kitty WerthmannMathilde Kitty (Gautsch) Werthmann was born January 2, 1926 on Salzburg, Austria. She received her elementary education in nearby Ramingstein, then completed her high school years at a convent boarding school in just 4 years. She went on to college and began teaching in the province of Salzburg.

While teaching, Kitty began seeing the effects of Adolf Hitler’s presence in her home country; the handicapped were sent away to die in his euthanasia program. Media became strictly controlled by the State, early enlistment by young men and women was required, free speech was no longer allowed. Seeing her beloved country become of full dictatorship, she chose to emigrate to the United States. She met her German born husband in Minneapolis, MN; they chose to raise a family of 5 children in Pierre, SD where Dr. Hubert Werthmann began his Radiology practice with St. Mary’s and area hospitals.

For nearly 40 years, Kitty has spent a great deal of time lobbying against bills she felt would negatively impact the American family. Both on the state level in South Dakota and the national level, she represented Eagle Forum as state president, a national pro-family political movement. She became a lobbyist and as co-founder, of South Dakota Right To Life, she was able to rescind ERA, as well as fight for pro-family bills.

She became known as a speaker who championed America’s freedom and independence. She spoke nationally to a wide variety of organizations as well as universities throughout the country.

You can read her obituary here.

20 thoughts on “Long-time lobbyist Kitty Werthmann has passed away at the age of 96”

  1. Kitty was a true patriot. She loved America and she stood up for what she believed! I was blessed to know her.

  3. Here’s a 27-minute video of Kitty speaking at an Eagle Forum event in 2010, back when she was a young, spry 84-year-old:

  5. With the passing of witnesses like her, future generations are in danger of forgetting the lessons she gave us.
    I have a CD of one of her talks and now wish I had a copy for each of my grandchildren.

  6. She told my kids middle school assembly that when she looked into Obama’s eyes she realized the last time she had seen such evil was Hitler. I’m paraphrasing but that was my 13 year olds take away.

    Lionize her as you will but she was a friend to only certain people.

  7. “commitment to the cause of freedom” – straight from the latest version of the newspeak dictionary

  8. “co-founder, of South Dakota Right To Life”

    “She became known as a speaker who championed America’s freedom”

    These things are not compatible. Condolences to her family but I won’t miss her lobbying.

    1. America is founded on the principle that the right to life and the right to liberty are fully compatible.

      Tens of millions of aborted American children have barely tasted America’s freedom.

        1. Oh, I see the problem here. I think those are three complete sentences. Others do not.

          A fertilized egg is a new human life, and many people don’t know it because they don’t want to know.

          When would you say a human life begins?

          1. The seven characteristics of life include:

            responsiveness to the environment;
            growth and change;
            ability to reproduce;
            have a metabolism and breathe;
            maintain homeostasis;
            being made of cells; and.
            passing traits onto offspring.

            A fertilized egg isn’t life, unless you want to add your subjective magic beliefs into the mix. Then why are your subjective magic beliefs law, and not mine? You authoritarians reap what you sow. If you don’t want guns regulated, quit regulating other objects to blame for crime (drugs), if you don’t want magic beliefs enacted into law (man having a baby), quit trying to legislate your magic beliefs into law. The contradiction in logic is laughable.

            1. Your total lack of logic is laughable, and so is your general incoherence.

              Would you say a five-year-old girl isn’t life if she has no “ability to reproduce”?

              Would you say those of us who support government punishment for a doctor who kills that five-year-old girl are all “authoritarians” with “magic beliefs”?

              The things you pretend to believe shouldn’t be law because they’re ridiculously wrong.

  9. And, of course, they are taking shots at her over at the SD chapter of the national socialist party propaganda site lead by the little propaganda minister himself, herr shorty heidelberger.

      1. Nope…just stating a fact made by observation. Do you deny the fact?

        Plus the bonus is that on this website I can point out the truth about the little prick and he can’t delete the post.

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