Surnames: Seebandt, Matzke, Wentland, Lezotte, Acheson, Dux, Srensberg, Hughes

----Source: Loyal TRG 12 March 2008

Seebandt, Caroline M. #3 (8 APR 1923 - 9 MAR 2008)

Caroline M. Seebandt, 84, Neillsville, died on Sunday, March 9, 2008, at Neillsville Memorial Medical Center. Visitation will be on Wednesday, March 12, from 4-8 p.m., at Buchanan Funeral Home, Neillsville, and on Thursday, March 13, from 10 a.m. until time of services at 11 a.m., at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Christie. The Rev. Daniel Cole will officiate. Burial will be held in East Weston Cemetery, Christie. Pallbearers will be her three grandsons, and three grandsons-in-law, Michael Dux, David Hughes and Tom Stensberg.

Caroline M. Matzke was born on April 8, 1923, at New Lisbon, to Ferdinand and Minnie (nee Wentland) Matzke. She received her education in the New Lisbon grade and high schools. She married Henry A. Seebandt on Feb. 28, 1944, at St. John’s parsonage. She farmed with her parents at New Lisbon and then with her future in-laws at Christie, while her husband served in World War ll in Italy. They eventually purchased that farm in Weston and farmed there for sixty years, until her illness in August. She was a member of St. John’s Evangelical Church and its ladies aid, and the Christie Sewing Circle. She enjoyed quilting, knitting, crocheting, travel, bingo, gardening, and fishing.

Survivors include a daughter, Claudean (Douglas) Lezotte, Neillsville, a son, Herman (Patricia Acheson) Seebandt, Neillsville; seven grandchildren, Kirit and Jeremy Lezotte, Rachael Dux, Garrett and Elice Seebandt, Marie Srensberg, and Clarice Hughes; and eight great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Henry, on April 20, 1991; three brothers; and one sister.

Buchanan Funeral Home, Neillsville, is assisting the family with arrangements.