Surnames: Baumgart, Sprengler, Prange

----Source: Marathon County Register (Unity, Clark County, Wis.) 08/08/1958

Baumgart, Minnie (13 Dec. 1882 - 2 Aug. 1958)

Funeral services were held at 1:30 P.M. Tuesday in Zion Lutheran Church at Colby for Mrs. Godfrey Baumgart, 75, who passed away Saturday morning at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield. The Rev. F. Sprengler officiated and burial was made in the Colby (Colby, Clark Co. Wis.) Cemetery.

The former Minnie Prange was born December 13, 1882 in Barzinstenter, Pommern, Germany and received her education there.

In early life she came to the U.S. to the Colby area where she was married on October 31, 1903 to Godfrey Baumgart, who preceded her in death. They lived on a farm there until 1946 and then came to Unity.

She is survived by one daughter, Helen Baumgart, West Bend, four sons, Theodore and Orville, Colby; Fred, Owen; and Irvin, Wisconsin Rapids, William Prange, Ridgeland.

One child, three brothers and four sisters preceded her in death.