Surnames: Bartz, Milleville, Braun, Bealer, Gaster, Yeager

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.) 05/31/1945

Bartz, Lena (12 Jan. 1871 - 21 May 1945)

Funeral rites were conducted Thursday afternoon at St. John’s Lutheran church at Nasonville for Mrs. Lena Bartz, 74, who died May 21. The Rev. Edgar A. Milleville officiated. Arrangements were in charge of the Gilbertson funeral home of Granton. Burial took place at Nasonville.

Mrs. Bartz was born Lena Braun January 12, 1871, in Manitowoc county, and was married to Fred Bartz in 1898. In 1903 they came to Wood county, where they lived on a farm until seven years ago, when they came to live with their daughter, Mrs. August Bealer of Chili. Mr. Bartz died in 1937.

Two sons reside at Marshfield, Robert and Walter Bartz, and another daughter, Mrs. Alma Gaster, at Medford, Ore. Also surviving are four stepchildren, Gust and Ewald Bartz and Mrs. Ella Yaeger of Marshfield, and Ernest Bartz in Oregon. There are 17 grandchildren. Henry Braun of Granton is a brother. Another brother, Albert Braun, lives at Brillion.