Surnames: Durst, Matysik, Eisberner, Quicker, Boushon, Hinker

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., Wis.) Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Durst, Gertrude Lillian (10 Feb. 1929 - 27 July 2008)

Gertrude L. Durst

NEILLSVILLE -- Gertrude Durst, 79, of Neillsville, died Sunday, July 27, 2008, at the Memorial Health and Rehabilitation Center in Neillsville.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 1, 2008, at Gesche Funeral Home in Neillsville. Interment will be in St. John's Catholic Cemetery in Fairchild. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., with a 7:30 p.m. rosary service Thursday at the funeral home.

Gertrude Lillian Durst was born Feb. 10, 1929, the daughter of Ed and Helen (Matysik) Eisberner in Black River Falls. She attended the Sunshine Country School in Humbird and graduated from Humbird High School. She was united in marriage to Ivan Durst on Jan. 20, 1949, in Black River Falls. They moved to Neillsville in 1969, and Gertrude raised her family while Ivan worked at the Nelson Muffler Plant.

She is survived by her husband, Ivan, of Neillsville; her children, Kenneth (Melinda) Durst, Suzanne Durst of Neillsville, Evelyn (Gene "Butch") Quicker, of Granton, Carol (Steve) Boushon of Granton, Allen (Kathy) Durst of Neillsville and Charles (Pam) Durst of Neillsville, nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters, Dorothy (Walter) Hinker of Desert, S.D., and Elaine Eisbrener of Sunnyvale, Calif.