BioA: Hake, Mr. and Mrs. Warren (55th - 1968)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Hake, Luck, Ketelhut, Gehrt, Lockbaum, Becker Schreiege, Wedekind, Rupprecht, Mashin, McWilliams, Brandt

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 11/21/1968

Hake, Mr. and Mrs. Warren (55th - 19 November 1968)

Celebrating their 55th wedding anniversaries Sunday at the Warren Hake home in Neillsville were Mr. and Mrs. Hake and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Luck, also of Neillsville.

Warren Hake and the former Helen Luck were married November 19, 1913, in St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Neillsville.

Frank Luck and the former Hilda Ketelhut were married December 10, 1913, same year in the same church. Both weddings were performed by the late Rev. Herman Brandt, father of Neillsville’s Mayor, John C. Brandt.

Attendants at the wedding were Harry Gehrt, Frank Lockbaum, Elsie (Becker) Schreiege and Mrs. Richard Wedekind. Those for Mr. and Mrs. Hake were George and Amelia Rupprecht, Ida Luck and Rush Hake.

Mr. and Mrs. Hake are the parents of three children: Mrs. Albert (Thelma) Mashin of Neillsville, Dale Hake of rural Neillsville and Mrs. John (Viola) McWilliams of Colorado Springs, Colo. They also have six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Both families have lived in the Neillsville area since their marriage.