Obit: Winkel, Emilie (1853 - 1934)

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Surnames: WINKEL HARTMANN THEDE REICHWALDT GOSSE VOELKMAN UHLIG MARTINS GRAY MILLER VALEFSKI

----Sources: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) 12/20/1934

Winkel, Emilie (21 Dec. 1853 - 18 Dec. 1934)

Mrs. Carl Winkel died Tuesday evening at 7:30 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Thede. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:00 o’clock at the home and at 2:00 o’clock at the Reformed church, Rev. H. K. Hartmann officiating, and internment will be made in the Colby cemetery.

The deceased was born in Germany on Dec. 21, 1853, and was married to Carl Winkel at Kiel, Wis., in 1875 but made her home with her son in law and daughter the past fourteen years. The surviving children are Mrs. Edmund Thede, town of Colby; Louis Winkel, town of Hull; William Winkel, town of Green Grove.

----Sources: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) 12/27/1934

Funeral services for Mrs. Carl Winkel (nee Emilie Reichwaldt) were held at the Reformed church in Colby Saturday, Dec. 22, 1934, at 3:00 p.m., Rev. H. K. Hartmann officiating, and internment was made in the Colby cemetery. The pall bearers were Alex Thede, Wm. Gosse, Wm. Voelkman, Wm. Uhlig, Ervin Martins and Herbert Gray. The flower girls were Mabel Winkel, Adeline Alnora Winkel and Mary Winkel.

The deceased was born in Kleinfranz, Pommern, Germany, Dec. 21, 1853, thus reaching the age of eighty-one years, lacking three days. She had not been feeling quite well for thirty years and has been ill with elephantitis for fourteen years but a stroke was the cause of her death. She suffered with great patience and endurance for fourteen years. She came to the United States when fifteen years of age and resided at Kiel, Wis., until her marriage to Carl Winkel which took place at Kiel in 1875. After the marriage, the Winkels lived several years in the town of Schleswig, near Kiel, Wis. Then for twenty five years in New Holstein, then in Rice Lake. Since 1920, she made her home with her youngest daughter, Mrs. Ed. Thede. She had been a member of the Reformed church since coming to the United States.

The deceased is survived by one brother, nine children, twenty grand children and four great grand children. The children are Bernhard Winkel of Rice Lake, Mrs. Christ Miller of Stockbridge, Louis Winkel of Colby, Carl Winkel of Rice Lake, Christ Winkel of Medford, William Winkel of Curtiss, Mrs. Arthur Valefski of Collins, Herman Winkel of Chilton, Mrs. Edmund Thede of Colby. One boy died when nine months old.

Mrs. Winkel was a good Christian, a kind and loving wife and mother. She was not only faithful to her church, but just as faithful in believing that it was her duty as a Christian to lend a helping hand in time of need - both in acts of kindness and in words. Like all Wisconsin’s early pioneer’s, she was of a very congenial disposition and had a kind word for all she met.