Obit: Grap, Donald Ervin (1927 - 1939)
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Surnames: Grap, Lochner, Motzkus, Hemp, Hagdeorn, Schoenherr, Moeller, Kroll, Dux, Patefield, Lemke, Mitte

----Sources: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.) Thurs., 11 May 1939

Grap, Donald Ervin (17 Nov. 1927 - 1 May 1939)

Donald Ervin Grap, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Grap, passed away at the Children Hospital at Milwaukee, May 1, after an illness of two weeks. He was born in Milwaukee November 17, 1927, and there attended the Nazareth Lutheran parochial school and Sunday school. He leaves to mourn her early death, his parents, 3 brothers; Edgar, Jr.; Alvin, and Robert, and four sisters; Evelyn, La Verne, Eileen and Diane, his grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins.

The remains rested May 3 from 11 o’clock a.m. to 1:30 o’clock p.m. at the Nazareth Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, where funeral services were conducted by Rev. Wm. Lochner. May 4th the body was brought to the home of his grandparents in the town of Weston where interment was services were conducted by Rev. Motzkus. The body was laid to rest at the Globe Lutheran Cemetery.

The pallbearers were Robert Hemp, Clarence Hagedorn, Jerry Schoenherr, Junior Moeller, Wilmer Kroll and Louis Dux.

Those from out of town who attended the funeral were: Mrs. Ida Patefield and daughter, Mary; Mrs. Elizabeth Grap and daughter, Marian, all of Wausau; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Patefield of Stevens Point, Mrs. Robert Lemke, Ernest and Delbert Grap, and their wives and children, Viola E. Grap and Walter Mitte, all of Milwaukee.