Surnames: Schorer, Puhlmann, Strade, Lemke, Schultz, Klein, Bolz

----Sources: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) 11/02/1950

Schorer, Louis G. (3 Mar. 1889 - 29 Oct. 1950)

Louis G. Schorer died unexpectedly of a heart attack at his home in Abbotsford Sunday morning at 12:45 A.M. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at the First Ev. and Reformed church in Colby, Wis., Rev. F. P. Puhlmann officiating, and burial was made in the Colby (Colby, Clark Co. Wis.) Cemetery. Mr. Schorer was born on March 3, 1889, in Sheboygan county where he received his education. He lived on the home farm with his parents until he was 14 years of age when he went to Milwaukee where he took up the blacksmith trade with his brother, Rudolph. In 1909, he came to Colby and worked here as a blacksmith until he moved to Curtiss in 1915. In 1929, he moved to Abbotsford, Wis. He married Ella Strade in Curtiss on May 17, 1911. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Abbotsford village board.

Surviving are his wife; a son, Norman of Stevens Point; two grand children; two brothers, Rudolph of Millersville and Fred of Sheboygan; four sisters, Mrs. Lena Lemke of Milwaukee, Mrs. Emma Schultz of Sheboygan Falls, Mrs. Anna Klein of Elkhart Lake and Mrs. Frieda Bolz of New Holstein. Four brothers and one sister preceded him in death.