Manitowoc County Wisconsin
Obituaries and Death Notices
Manitowoc County Wisconsin
Obituaries and Death Notices
Ernest Eichhorst
Source: Manitowoc Herald-Times (Manitowoc, Wis.) Tuesday, 6 June 1967; transcribed by Marla Zwakman
Ernest Eichhorst, 82, of Rt. 1, Greenleaf, died Sunday at Bellin Memorial Hospital, Green Bay.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Nickel Funeral Home and at 2 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church, Morrison. Dr. H. R. Koch will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mr. Eichhorst was born Oct. 29, 1884, in the Town of Morrison, son of the late Ferdinand and Louise Behrenz Eichhorst. He was a retired farmer. Survivors are six nieces and six nephews.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Wednesday.
M. Engeldinger
Source: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) Thursday, 20 Mar. 1890; transcribed by Marla Zwakman
* Mat Engeldinger and wife and Mrs. Geo. Kesler went to Manitowoc, Friday, to attend the funeral of M. Engeldinger, Sr., who recently died at that place. Mr. Engeldinger was formerly a resident of this place and was much respected as an honest, upright man.
Roy E. Griepentrog
Manitowoc Herald-Times (Manitowoc, Wis.) Monday, 2 Aug. 1965; transcribed by Marla Zwakman
Roy E. Griepentrog, M, of 744 S. 26th St., Manitowoc, died Monday morning at Memorial Hospital, Manitowoc, of complications from a broken finger received in a Softball game about a week ago. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Zion Lutheran Church, Wayside, the Rev. B. C. Gumz of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Manitowoc, officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mr. Griepentrog was born June 17, 1939, in the Town of Holland, Brown County, son of Norbert and Helen Eichhorst Griepentrog. He attended Wayside Zion Lutheran Parochial School, was a 1957 graduate of Reedsville High School and attended Carroll College, Waukesha. He was active in athletics both in high school and college. He married lone Gruening Dec. 26, 1960, and after the marriage the couple lived at Reedsville two years and since then at Manitowoc. He was employed at Invincible Metal Furniture Co., and was a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church.
He is survived by his wife; a son, Gregory; a daughter, Swen, at home; his parents, of Wayside, two brothers, Roland and Glenn, of Wayside, a sister, Mrs. Wallace Piepenburg, of Reedsville, and nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at Schwartz Funeral Home, Morrison, after 3 p.m. Tuesday until 11 a.m. Wednesday and then at the church. Memorials will be appreciated.
Mrs. Henry Hansen
Source: Wisconsin Weekly Advocate (25 Jan. 1900) transcribed by FoFG MZ
Two Rivers, Wis., Jan. 22. – Mrs. Henry Hansen, a well-known resident of this city and wife of ex-City Treasurer Hy. Hansen died at her home on the south side after a lingering illness. She was 55 years of age and had been a resident of this city for the past thirty years. She is survived by a husband and family.
Charles Haverland
Source: Wisconsin Weekly Advocate (18 Oct. 1900) transcribed by FoFG MZ
Manitowoc, Wis., Oct. 16. – Charles Haverland, for many years a resident of this city, died at his home several miles from this city. Mr. Haverland for many years conducted the Central house here. He was 77 years old and is survived by his wife.
Lars Henrichson
Source: Duluth News Tribune (Duluth, St. Louis County, Minn.) 12 Nov. 1899; transcribed by Marla Zwakman
Lars Henrichson, a well-known resident of Two Rivers, died after a lingering illness. He was born in Denmark sixty-four years ago, coming to Two Rivers in 1871. He has resided here since. He is survived by his wife and a family of grown-up children.
Frank John Horner
Source: Marathon County Register (Unity, Marathon County, Wis.) Friday, 8 Aug. 1952; contributed by Ron Flink & transcribed by Marla Zwakman
Funeral services were held Thursday at 2 P.M. at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, South Green Grove, for Frank John Horner, 93, who passed away at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, Sunday, August 3 of a heart attack and old age complications.
The Rev. Paul Dietz officiated at the services and burial was made in the Beaver cemetery.
Mr. Horner was born January 9, 1859 at Two Rivers. He came to Clark County when 18 years of age and lived in the township of Beaver for 75 years. He was making his home with his son, Charles and family at the time of his death.
He was married April 17, 1883 to Mina Meinholdt of Greenwood. Her death occurred 27 years ago.
Surviving are three sons, Charles, Unity; Edward, Owen; and Herman, Ypsilanti, Mich.; and four daughters, Mrs. Dave Pepin, Mrs. Chauncey Johnson, Mrs. Clarence Taylor and Miss Emma Horner, all of California. He is also survived by 9 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
A daughter, Mrs. John Miller, preceded him in death, also 2 sons and 2 daughters, who died in infancy.
Timothy Kirwan
Wisconsin Weekly Advocate (29 Dec. 1898) submitted by Diana Heser Morse
Manitowoc, Wis., Dec. 29 (Special) Timothy Kirwan, son of Judge and Mrs. Michael Kirwan, passed away at the home of his parents on North Eighth street yesterday morning at the age of 31 years. The deceased had been ill with consumption for nearly two years and was obliged to give up his position in Milwaukee on account of failing health. He was a young man of more than ordinary intelligence and possessed qualities of mind and heart which won him friends wherever he went. The funeral services will be held from his late home tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Lester Koerth
Herald Times Reporter (Manitowoc, Wis.) Saturday, 9 June 1973; transcribed by Marla Zwakman
Lester F. Koerth, 53, of Rt. 1, Brillion, died Friday at home.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Wieting Funeral Home, Brillion. The Rev. Calmer Overlien will officiate and burial will be in Community Cemetery, Brillion.
Mr. Koerth was born June 28, 1919, at Manitowoc, son of the late John Koerth and Lillian Koerth. He married Mildred Eichhorst Feb. 22, 1941, at Morrison. He was a member of the Rural United Methodist Church, Brillion.
Survivors include his wife, two sons, Darwin (Skip), of California and Larry, at home, five daughters, Mrs Kenneth (Sandra) Schisel and Mrs. David (Kathy) Les Monde, of Manitowoc, Mrs. Gary (Bonnie) Torsch, of Reedsville, Misses Terrie and Vickie, at home: a brother, John, of West Bend; a sister, Mrs. Walter (Phyllis) Ackerman, of Neenah; his mother, of Oshkosh and six grandchildren. His father preceded him in death.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Sunday until the hour of service Monday.
Alvin M. Kuehnau
Source: Manitowoc Herald-Times (Manitowoc, Wis.) Friday, 3 Nov. 1950; transcribed by Marla Zwakman
Funeral services for Alvin M. Kuehnau, 62, who died suddenly of a heart attack at his home at 1421 Hawthorne avenue, Two Rivers Wednesday afternoon, will be held at the Hanson and Onion funeral home, Marinette, at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Burial will be in Forest Home cemetery in that city.
The body of Mr. Kuehnau, who had been in failing health for the past month, was removed to Marinette from the Klein and Stangel Inc. funeral home, Two Rivers, Thursday afternoon.
Born in Marinette county in 1888, Mr. Kuehnau resided in that county until nine years ago when he and his wife came to Two Rivers. He had been an employee of the Eggers Plywood and Veneer company since.
Surviving are his wife, the former Laddy Peanasky of Marinette, whom he married in 1930. He leaves four sons and two daughters by a previous marriage.
Mrs. Amos Pfefferle
Source: Marshfield Times (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Friday, 26 Nov. 1897; transcribed by Marla Zwakman
Mrs. Amos Pfefferle, a lady much thought of, died very suddenly at her home in Hewitt last Friday. A little babe three weeks old and a sorrowing husband survive her. The body was taken to Naxiens, Manitowoc county, last Saturday for burial. Mrs. Pfefferle was a sister to Mrs. John Casper of this city.
Death of Hon. John Milton Read
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Dane Co. Wis.) 15 Mar. 1881 - Sub. by Marla Zwakman
On Wednesday evening, the 9th inst., John Milton Read, of Kewaunee, died in the 39th year of his age. Mr. Read was elected, last fall, a member of the Assembly, but owing to ill health he resigned the position before the session began, and went south in the hope of improvement. Finding no relief, he started for home, and reached as far as Louisville, Kentucky, of which city he was a native, born November 3, 1842, and there he breathed his last. His wife was with him doing all that a wife could do for his comfort. Mr. Read was a most excellent man, and had several warm friends in this city. He was a printer by trade, and was an employee in the STATE JOURNAL office in 1861, and from it enlisted in the 14th regiment, with which he remained till the close of the war, serving as private, sergeant major, adjutant, and assistant adjutant general of the brigade. He participated in the battle of Shiloh, Corinth, Nashville, the assault on Vicksburg, in the Red River campaign, and in the movements around Mobile; and was wounded at Vicksburg and the Spanish Fort, and taken prisoner at Corinth. He settled in Wisconsin in 1847, at Milwaukee, removing the following year to Manitowoc. After the close of the war, he went to Missouri and engaged for a short time in the publishing business, but returned to Manitowoc in 1867, and settled at Kewaunee in 1868. He has served as county superintendent two terms. During the years 1874 and 1875, he served in the State Senate, where he was esteemed as an industrious and useful member. He was ever ready to perform his duty in whatever capacity he was called to serve; and was a good citizen, whose death will be deeply deplored by his many friends in the State.
Henry Schuette Jr.
Source: Marathon County Register (Unity, Marathon County, Wis.) Friday, 9 Dec. 1949; contributed by Ron Flink & transcribed by Marla Zwakman
Henry Schuette Jr. was born in the Town of Kossuth, Manitowoc County, December 1, 1897, and came with his parents to the Town of Beaver in 1910 and engaged in farming. A few years ago he went to Braddock, N. D. and farmed.
He passed away in a hospital at Bismark, N. D. on Saturday, November 26, 1949. Funeral services were held at the Lulloff Funeral Home at Colby on Sunday, December 4 at 1:30 p.m. He was laid to rest in the Town of Beaver cemetery. The Rev. Otto Hoffman officiated.
He is survived by his father, Henry Sr., of Owen; four brothers, Walter, Neenah; Hugo, Unity; Arthur, Loyal; and Edwin, Kaukauna. His mother, ? brothers and 1 sister preceded him in death.
The pallbearers were Ernest, Albert and Henry Molle, Ed Knecht, Elmer Schuette and Alvin Gautscher.
People from out-of-town who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zarnsdorf, Henry Schuette Sr., Owen; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Klozinski, Mr. John Knecht and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Schuette, Loyal; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schuette, Darwin and Audrey and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Schuette, Neenah; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Schuette, Kaukauna; Maynard Schuette, Bismark, N. D.; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schuette Jr., Janesville; Mr. and Mrs. Orville Schuette and Jean, and Miss Beatrice Schuette, Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schlinsog and son, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schlinsog, Granton; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dalhlke, Johnnie Kolinchuck, Boyd; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schuette, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Schwarze, Greenwood.
Mrs. Soulak
Source: Wisconsin Weekly Advocate (18 Oct. 1900) transcribed by FoFG MZ
Manitowoc, Wis., Oct. 16. – Mrs. Soulak of Branch, who the doctors think was suffering from the glanders, died.
Ida Stever
Manitowoc Herald-Times (Manitowoc, Wis.) Wednesday, 2 Oct. 1968; transcribed by Marla Zwakman
Mrs. Henry Stever, 66, of 2209 13th St., Two Rivers, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at her home Wednesday morning.
Funeral services will be at 2 a.m. Saturday at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Rev Edward Stelter officiating. Burial will be in Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Town of Kossuth.
Mrs. Stever, nee Ida Eichhorst, was born Oct. 13, 1901, at Neva, Brown County, a daughter of the late Fred and Anna Wierschke Eichhorst. She attended the Morrison Grade School. She was married May 20, 1925, to Henry Stever at Morrison.
A member of St. John Ladies Society, she also was a member of the Sewing Club of the congregation.
Besides her husband, she leaves a son, Alvin, of Manitowoc; five sisters, Mrs. Erwin Thiesfeldt of Green Bay, Mrs. Norbert Griepentrog and Mrs. Norbert Liebergen of Wayside, Mrs. Clancis Pahl of Maribel and Mrs. Lester Koerth of Brillion; six brothers, Elmer of Greenleaf, Reuben of Brillion, Hilbert of De Pere, Wilmer and Alfred of Morrison and Melvin Eichhorst of Lark, and three grandchildren Two brothers preceded her in death.
Friends may call at Deja and Martin Funeral Chapels, Two Rivers, after 3 p.m. Friday until until the time of services.
Emma Svec
Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Mar. 1958; contributed by Ron Flink & transcribed by Marla Zwakman
STRATFORD – Mrs. John Svec, 77, town of Eau Pleine resident, died Thursday at the Bethel Convalescent Home at Arpin after a two-year illness. She had been a patient there since December.
Funeral services will be at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in March Rapids, where the body will lie in state from 11 a.m. that day until the time of services. Beginning Saturday afternoon friends may call at the Sauter Funeral Home here.
The Rev. Alfred Pautsch, pastor, will officiate at the final rites. Committal will take place in the town of Brighton cemetery.
Mrs. Svec was born Emma Berger Jan. 25, 1881, in Manitowoc county. She and Mr. Svec were married in Chicago in 1903. He died Jan. 25, 1952. Until moving to Bethel, Mrs. Svec had live in Eau Pleine township for 41 years.
She is survived by two sons, Ervin, town of Eau Pleine, and John, Oak Park, Ill.; three daughters, Mrs. Alfred (Beatrice) Farr, Mundelein, Ill., Mrs. Earl (Emma) Kaeser, Tomahawk, and Mrs. Albert (Georgianna) Nylen, Wausau; one sister, Mrs. Frank Opichka, Wausau; three brothers, Emil of Maribel, Frank of Whitelaw and Anton of Manitowoc; 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
*** Note: Emma died 21 Mar. 1958
Elmer Swensen
Source: Sheboygan Press – Saturday, 2 Feb. 1952; MZ, submitted by a FoFG
Elmer Swensen, 66, Town Eaton farmer, died Friday morning at the Holy Name hospital in Manitowoc following a lingering illness.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon at the West Valders Lutheran church. The Rev. N. A. Bernsten will officiate. Burial is scheduled for the church cemetery.
Friends may call at the Berge Funeral home at Valders from Sunday noon until the time of rites.
Born on April 3, 1885, in Eaton, he was a lifelong resident of that area. He married Emma Freimuth in 1926.
Survivors include a daughter, Grace, and a son, Donald, both at home; and four brothers, Olean and Ernest of Manitowoc, Arnold of Sheboygan, and Emil of Two Rivers.
