Surnames: Kobs, Hoffman, Waldhart, Herrmann, Gosse, Prange, Strathman, Beyerl, Steger, Staacke, Gries, Krueger

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 03/28/1946

Kobs, Margaret Valeria (17 Apr. 1926 - 22 Mar. 1946)

Mrs. Roger Kobs, 19, who suffered severe burns, Wednesday morning, when attempting to light a fire in the furnace of her farm home in the town of Colby, died at 11:45 o’clock Friday morning at St. Joseph’s hospital, Marshfield.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the Lulloff Funeral Home and at 2:00 o’clock at Zion Lutheran church in Colby, with the Rev. Otto Hoffmann officiating. Internment was made in the Colby (Colby, Clark Co. Wis.) Cemetery.

Pall bearers were Herb Waldhart, Dick Herrmann, Arvin Gosse, Herb Prange, Harold Strathman and Peter Beyerl, Jr. The flowers were carried by the Misses Jeanette Steger, Wanda Stacke, Edith Waldhart, Marcia Gries, Hazel Krueger, Phyllis Waldhart and Cyrena Waldhart.

Mrs. Kobs, the former Margaret Valeria Waldhart, was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Waldhart, of Colby, Wis. She was born April 17, 1926 in Colby and was graduated from the Colby high school in 1944. Prior to her marriage on Sept. 1, 1945, to Roger Kobs, she was employed at Wing’s Drug Store and by the White House Milk company of Abbotsford, Wis.

Surviving, besides her parents, are her husband and three brothers, Wallace, William, Jr., and Gilbert, all at home.