Obit: Luck, Charlie (1863 - 1948)

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Surnames: Luck, Kleckner, Lauterbach, Moen, Dahnert, Nickel, Filitz, Lautenbach, Baumann, Wang, Longwitz, Nix, Gehrt, Jewett, Subke

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) June 10, 1948

Luck, Charlie (1863 - 5 June 1948)

Charlie Luck, 75, of Neillsville, died at 2:45 a.m. on June 5, (1948) at the home of Mrs. Anna Kleckner, on West Fifth Street. The funeral was held at the Georgas Funeral Home at 3:30, June 7, the Rev. William Lauterbach of St. John’s Lutheran Church officiating. Interment took place at the Neillsville City Cemetery.

Pallbearers were the Messrs: Herman Moen, Albert Dahnert, Herbert Nickel, Herbert and Elmer Filitz and Louie Lautenbach. Mrs. William Baumann, accompanied by Miss Carole Wang, sang "Asleep in Jesus" and "Lasst Mich Gehn".

From out-of-town came Mrs. Longwitz, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nix of Minocqua, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gehrt of Greenwood; and Mrs. Vern Jewett of Chippewa Falls, Wis.

Charlie Luck was born in 1863 in Germany. When he was four years old his parents brought him to the United States, where they located in Waukesha. After coming to Clark County and settling on a farm in the Town of Levis Mr. Luck married Elizabeth Subke in Neillsville in 1907. He and his wife lived on their farm for 25 years, at which time they re-moved to Waukesha for a time and then returned to Neillsville, where Mrs. Luck died in 1935. They had no children, but Mr. Luck leaves many nieces and nephews. One brother and four sisters preceded Mr. Luck in death.

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