Surnames: Blake, Strebe, Griffiths, Moore, Provinski, Brown, Leonhard, Gaetz

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 04/01/1943

Blake, Chester Albert (19 Mar. 1907 - 26 Mar. 1943)

Private funeral services for Chester Albert Blake were held at the Zink Funeral Home, Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock.

Chester Blake, a native of Duluth, Minn., who was the husband of the former Ethel Strebe, of Abbotsford, was taken sick Monday, March 8, at his home in Chicago. He remained home until Friday when he was taken to the Presbyterian hospital and then moved to the Municipal contagious disease hospital, where he died Friday morning, March 26, of epidemic meningitis, at the age of 36 years.

The surviving relatives are Mrs. Blake, of Chicago, two children, Kenneth, 13 and Nancy, one month old; his parents, two sisters in Chicago and a brother in the service.

The body was brought here Saturday and remained at the Zink Funeral Home until 3:00 Sunday afternoon when funeral services, attended only by relatives, were held. The Rev. George Griffiths of the Presbyterian church officiated. Internment was made in the Abbotsford cemetery.

The pallbearers were Al and Clyde Strebe, Joe Moore, Frank Provinski, George Brown and Edgar Leonhard.

Among the relatives who attended the funeral were Mrs. Blake and daughter, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Abe Strebe and grand son, Kenneth Blake, Fairchild; Mr. and Mrs. Matt Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Leonhard and children, Alvira and Harold, Athens; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Strebe, Goodrich; Mr. and Mrs. William Gaetz, Riplinger; Mr. and Mrs. George Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Provinski and daughter, Margaret, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moore and daughter, Coleen, and Mrs. Charles Brown.

*Chester Albert Blake is buried in the Abbotsford City Cemetery, Mayville Township, Clark County, Wisconsin.