Surnames: Stange, Younker, Sprengler, Strange

----Source: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) 05/26/1949

Stange, Minnie (17 Sept. 1873 - 21 May 1949)

Mrs. Minnie Stange, age 75, a resident of Abbotsford until two weeks ago when she went to Dorchester to live with her daughter, Mrs. Rudy Younker, died at the Younker home Saturday evening. Funeral services were conducted at the Christ Lutheran church at Abbotsford Wednesday afternoon, Rev. E. H. Sprengler officiating, and internment was made in the Abbotsford cemetery.

Mrs. Stange was born in Vernon county Sept. 17, 1873, and was married to Frank Stange, who died May 2, 1946. Her daughter, Mrs. Rudy (May) Younker, lives in the town of Mayville and her son, John, in the town of Hoard. There are eight grandchildren. They observed their golden wedding anniversary in 1941.

A brother and a sister preceded her in death.

*** Note: In the original article, Stange was miss-spelled as Strange.