Obit: Stark, Samuel, J. (1887 - 1954)

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Surnames: STARK VANDERSTOEP FLINK BAKER SPIER DALLMAN UECKER SCHWEKE COLBY SALTER JOHNSON PETERSON MELANDER RASMUSSEN LARSON MILLER MESSER BINNING CARLSON SAUNDERS FALK HUEBNER RISKE BANER DIETSCHE OBERNBERGER TESMER

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., Wis.) Feb. 1954

Stark, Samuel, J. (9 Sept. 1887 - 21 Feb. 1954)

Unity, Wis. - Final rites were conducted at the Lulloff Funeral Home in Colby Thursday afternoon for Samuel J. Stark, 66, who died at Milwaukee Feb. 21, of coronary thrombosis. The Rev. Clyde Vander Stroep officiated at the services and burial was in Trinity Lutheran cemetery.

Mr. Stark was born in Muskegon, Mich., on Sept. 9, 1887, and had been a resident of Unity since 1916.

He is survived by his wife, the former Ella Flink; by two brothers, George Stark, Grand Rapids, Mich., and John Stark, Muskegon; and two sisters, Mrs. Gertie Baker and Mrs. Pearl Spier, Muskegon. Four brothers preceded him in death.

Active pallbearers at the funeral were Theodore Dallman, Norman Uecker, Loraine Flink, Marvin Flink, Walter Flink, and Clifford Schweke, and honorary pallbearers were James Colby, Earl Salter, John Johnson, Carl Peterson, Edward Melander and Mr. Rasmussen.

Mrs. Ted Dallman, Mrs. Larson, Mrs. Norman Uecker, Mrs. Loraine Flink, and Mrs. Conrad Flink had charge of flowers and Mrs. Alfred Johnson, Mrs. George Miller, and Mrs. Ansel Messer were the singers, with Mrs. Henry Binning as accompanist.

Out-of-town people at the rites included Mr. and Mrs. William Spier, Mrs. Gertrude Baker, Mrs. Roy Carlson, Muskegon, Mich.; Mrs. William Dallman, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Dallman, Carl and Marvin Flink, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Uecker and daughter, and Mrs. Oscar Flink, Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. William Flink, Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Saunders, and John Flink, Minneapolis; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Falk, Mrs. Ann Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. David Flink, Mrs. Albert Huebner, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Riske, Clintonville; Clifford Schweke, Marshfield; Mrs. Charles Bauer, Abbotsford; Mr. and Mrs. James Colby and Mr. and Mrs. Felix Dietsche, Owen; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Larson, and Mr. and Mrs. Rasmussen, Withee; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Obernberger, Athens; Mr. and Mrs. Loraine Flink and daughters, Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Tesmer, Colby; and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Flink, Spencer.