Obit: Fritsch, Anna (1884 - 1972)

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Surnames: FRITSCH YOUNKER PLOCKELMAN MILLER BOFENKAMP

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., Wis.) 02/14/1972

Fritsch, Anna (27 July 1884 - 12 Feb. 1972)

Spencer, Wis. - Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Christ the King Catholic Church here for Mrs. John (Anna) Fritsch, 87, of Spencer, who died of an apparent heart attack at the Clark County Hospital at Owen, where she resided the past five years.

The Rev. Andrew Bofenkamp, pastor, will officiate and burial will be made in the Dorchester Memorial cemetery, Dorchester, Wis.

Visitations may be made at the Jasperson Funeral Home here beginning today. A general rosary will be recited there at 8 p.m. today (Monday).

The former Anna Younker was born July 27, 1884, in Dorchester, and was married Oct. 28, 1902, in Dorchester, to John Fritsch, who preceded her in death May 12, 1954. The couple resided in the Dorchester and Abbotsford area until moving to Spencer in 1913. She had resided there since that time.

Mrs. Fritsch was a member of Christ the King Catholic Church and was a past member of the Christian Mothers Society, National Catholic Society of Foresters, Royal Neighbors, and the Women’s Relief Corps.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. George (Lucille) Plockelman, Chicago; six sons, Lawrence, Spencer; Emery, Green Valley, Ariz.; Myron, Withee; Theodore, Green Bay; James, Stevens Point; and Robert, Sun Prairie; 21 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; a sister, Bertha Miller, Eau Claire, and a brother, William Miller, Fifield.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two sons, a sister and two brothers.