Obit: Hubing, Charles Michael (1895 - 1971)

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Surnames: Hubing, Peutz, Davis, Jacob, Hoffman, Coppins, Root, Halstead, Carter, Westphal, Dahlke, Lowe, Babka, Dekker, Drexler, Engstrum, Vine, Pietenpol, Dietrich, Brown, Kuechenmeister, Gluch, Schultz, Erickson, Eisentraut, Smigelski, Musil, Nickel

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co, WI) 3/25/1971

Hubing, Charles Michael (2 March 1895 - 23 March 1971)

Funeral services for Charles Michael Hubing, 76, of Neillsville, who died March 23, at his home, are to be held Friday, March 26, at 2 p.m. from the Georgas Funeral Home. The Rev. Melvin Nickel of the United Methodist Church is to officiate, with burial to be made in the Neillsville City Cemetery. The body of Mr. Hubing will be in state beginning this (Thursday) morning.

Charles Hubing, the son of Nicholas and Mary (Peutz) Hubing, was born March 2, 1895, in the Town of Grant. He attended the Kurth School. As a young man he did farm work, and then went out west to work in the harvest fields there. He enlisted in the army at Beach, N. D., on August 1, 1917, and served as a driver for the Evacuation Ambulance Division in France. Upon receiving his discharge from the service at Camp Dodge, Ia., in July of 1919, he returned to the Town of Grant where he farmed until his retirement in 1946.

His marriage to the former Lila Davis took place in Granton on March 9, 1925. The Hubings moved to Neillsville in 1947 and have lived here since that time. Mr. Hubing was a member of Wilson-Heintz Post No. 2241 VFW and of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV).

Survivors include his wife, Lila; two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Charlotte) Jacob of Ellsworth and Mrs. William (Luann) Hoffman of Battle Creek, Mich.; and three grandchildren. He is further survived by three sisters: Mrs. Clara Coppins of Ft. Atkinson, Mrs. Celia Root, of Knowlton, and Mrs. Herbert (Marie) Halstead of West Union, Ia.; and a brother George Hubing of Neillsville.

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co, WI) /1971

Funeral services for Charles M. Hubing, 76, of Neillsville, who died at his home March 23, were held Friday, March 26, at 2 p.m. from the Georgas Funeral Home. The Rev. Melvin Nickel of the United Methodist Church officiated and burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

Pallbearers for Mr. Hubing were: Walter Brown, Ernest Kuechenmeister, Ronald Gluch, Leonard Schultz, George Erickson, and Carl Eisentraut. Mrs. Sarah Smigelski sang “Be Still, My Soul” and “Children of the Heavenly Father.” She was accompanied by Mrs. Jas. A. Musil.

Those from out-of-town who attended the services included: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jacob of Ellsworth, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoffman and sons of Battle Creek, Mi., Mrs. Clara Coppins of Ft. Watkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Carter of Mosinee, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Westphal and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dahlke of Milwaukee, Mrs. Bill Lowe of Waukesha, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Babka of Black River Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Hubing and family of Stoughton, Lee Hubing of Terry, Mt., Mrs. William Dekker of Circle, Mt., Mr. and Mrs. David Drexler of Augusta, Miss Charleen Jacob and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Engstrum of Eau Claire, and Mrs. William Vine, Ruth Pietenpol and Rollie Dietrich of Granton.