Obit: Struensee, Mildred Bernice (1915 - 1945)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Surnames: Struensee, Strebing, Spaete

----Sources: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.) November 1945

Struensee, Mildred Bernice (27 July 1915 - 1 Nov. 1945)

Mrs. Joseph Struensee was interned Sunday, November 4, in the Neillsville Cemetery, following funeral services at the Jaster Funeral Home. The Rev. G. W. Longenecker officiated.

She died Friday, November 1,1945, at her home in the town of Grant. Mildred Bernice Strebing was born in Chicago July 27,1915, to August and Esther Strebing. Later her parents settled in the town of Washburn, where she lived until the time of her marriage February 6, 1935, to Joseph Struensee, Jr.*

Six children were born to this union. They are: Dale, Richard, Robert, Shirley, Alice and Warren. Surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Strebing; four brothers, Howard Strebing, town of Washburn; Kenneth Strebing, Chicago; Clarence Strebing, Madison; Ray Strebing, Neillsville; and two sisters, Mrs. Carl Spaete, town of Washburn; and Evelyn Strebing, St. Paul, Minn. A sister preceded her in death.

The pallbearers were William Kurasz, Harry Wedekind, Helmuth Schultz, William Matousek, Alan Crockett and Joe Kurasz.

(* This being the first wife of Joseph Struensee, Jr.)