Surnames: Lamer, Austin, Denzine, Stelzel, Daley, Bahr, Treat, Neitzel, Kelsey, Perry

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 05/11/1944

Lamer, Joseph F. (16 Dec. 1862 - 4 May 1944)

Joseph F. Lamer, 81, Heafford Junction, a resident of the town of Holton for many years, died May 4 after one day’s illness in Riverview hospital at Tomahawk. Funeral services were held Monday at 2:00 p.m. at Nick’s Funeral Home, Tomahawk, where the body lay in state.

The Rev. Roy Austin, pastor of the Rhinelander Congregational church, officiated and burial was made in the Greenwood cemetery.

Mr. Lamer, who was born Dec. 16, 1862, and came to a farm in the town of Holton, at the age of 19, was married Jan. 1, 1889, to Miss Emma Denzine of Dorchester, Wisconsin, who died May 6, 1936, at the age of 66 years. Of their eight children, the following five survive their father:

Mrs. Elsie Stelzel, Dorchester; Mrs. Anna Daley, formerly of Abbotsford, and Herman Lamer, both of Heafford Junction; Mrs. Richard (Rose) Bahr, Monroe; and Joe Lamer, Jr., Tomahawk. He also leaves 19 grand children and three great grand children, besides four sisters, who live in Portland, Ore. One brother and one sister preceded him in death.

In 1925 he went to Tomahawk and started a fox ranch and summer resort on Crystal Lake, near Heafford Junction, where he had since made his home.

Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Treat, Mrs. L. K. Neitzel, George Kelsey, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Perry of Owen, attended the funeral.