Obit: Marlow, Gilbert Sr. (1848 - 1925)
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Surnames: MARLOW
LECLAIRE PREMAU MCDONALD ----Source: WEEKLY
CLARION (Dorchester, Clark Co., WI) 02/27/1925 Marlow, Gilbert
Sr. (5 Sep 1848 - 22 Feb 1925) Gilbert Marlow Sr.
died at the home of his son Louis, owner of the Green Grove Cheese
Factory west of Colby, on Sunday, Feb. 22nd, 1925 after a long
illness of dropsy and leakage of the heart. The body was brought to
Dorchester and the funeral conducted from the St. Louis Catholic
Church Wednesday morning, Rev. Father Pitzenberger officiating.
Albert Esser, Vincent Wuest, Richard Schreiber, Herman Kronschnabl,
Mat Michels and John Schmitt acted as pallbearers. Gilbert Marlow was
born in Quebec, Sept. 5, 1848, and was 76 years, 5 months and 17
days old at time of death. He was married to
Miss Josephine LeClaire at Fond du Lac and ten children were born
to them. Five, with their mother, preceded him in death. The Marlows were
among the early Dorchester, Clark County, Wis. settlers, so he was
among the members who helped to make this country the beautiful,
fruitful land it now is. We all must admire
those people who who were not frightened by the hardships that
confronted them but went steadfastly on toward the goal they had
set before them. May they live long in the hearts of fellowmen. They lived on
happily together in the farm home, just a little way north of the
village, seeing their children growing up about them and going to
homes of their own until 1915 when the wife and mother slipped out
into the great beyond. Louis then managed
the home farm until he went into the cheese making business. But
the father seemed most contented with him so he made his home with
Louis and wife until death called him to join his best beloved. Five children are
left to mourn his loss, two sons, Gilbert of Fond du Lac and Louis,
three daughters, Mrs. Maggie Premeau, Westboro, Mrs. Josephine
McDonald, Cour de Lane, Idaho, and Miss Melvina Marlow, Spokane,
Wash. and two brothers and two sisters in Canada. Those from out of
town present at the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. A. Premeau, Mrs. L.
Evans, Mr. and Mrs. E. Veslie, Westboro; Gilbert Marlow, Fond du
Lac; Mrs. George Tedder, Henry Malchow Sr., Park Falls; Mr. and
Mrs. Nels Premeau, Stetsonville; Walter Malchow, Stevens Point;
Lelah LeClaire, Abbotsford and Mrs. Ollie Lord, Cornell. The Clarion joins
the many friends in offering sympathy and condolence to the
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