 Emma sold off most of her assets in c. 1910 to Heinrich Rudolph Walen of Hamburgische Südsee AG.She later lived in Sydney and died in 1913 in Monte Carlo by the bedside of her estranged husband Paul Kolbe.Their ashes were buried in her old station cemetery “Gunantambu” at Ralum, which is today the site of the Ralum Club in Kokopo, New Britain, Papua New Guinea.