Obit: Schaele, Rudolph C. (1877 - 1968)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Surnames: Schaele, Schmidt, Payne

----Sources: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark County, WI) January 11, 1968

Schaele, Rudolph C. (April 17, 1877 - January 7, 1968)

Funeral services were held Wednesday from the Georgas Funeral Home for Rudolph C Schaele of Neillsville, who died here Sunday, January 7, 1968. The Rev. Norman W Lindloff, of St. John’s Lutheran Church officiated. Burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

Mr. Schaele was born April 17, 1877, in Buschdorf, Germany and came to the United States at the age of 16. He located in Nebraska and two years later moved to Dodge County, Wisconsin. He was married September 23, 1901, to the former Anna Schmidt in Fond du Lac. They farmed in Dodge County, moving to Clark County in 1914, where they operated a farm in the Town of Weston until his retirement.

Surviving are his three children, Clarence Schaele of Sheboygan, Edward Schaele of Brazil, IN, and Mrs. Verna Payne of Neillsville; two sisters and a brother still living in Germany; five grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.