Obit: Urlaub, Bernice E. (1915 - 2009) 

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Surnames: Urlaub, Lothspeich, Dohman, Steinhilber, Bryan, LaDuca, Duquette 
 

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Monday, 27 July 2009 
 

Urlaub, Bernice E. (10 Apr. 1915 - 24 July 2009) 
 

NEILLSVILLE -- Bernice E. Urlaub, 94, of Neillsville died Friday, July 24 at the Memorial Health and Rehabilitation Center in Neillsville. 
 

A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 29 at St. Mary's Catholic Church, in Neillsville. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Wednesday prior to the service at St. Mary's. Internment will be in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, in Neillsville. 
 

The Gesche Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements. 
 

Bernice Elizabeth (Lothspeich) Urlaub was born April 10, 1915, in Langdon, N.D., to John Martin and Christina Marie (Dohman) Lothspeich. 
 

She worked as a nurse’s aid at the Memorial Nursing Home, in Neillsville for 10 years. She married Francis Urlaub on Oct. 20, 1936, at St. Alphonse's Church, in Langdon. Francis died April 4, 2000. 
 

She is survived by three children; Benny (Jenny) Urlaub, of Neillsville, Janis (Lee) Steinhilber, of Wisconsin Rapids, and Beverly (Eugene) Bryan, of Neillsville; one brother, Raymond Lothspeich, of LaMesa, Calif., and two sisters, Rita LaDuca, of Los Angeles, Calif., and Jean (Dick) Duquette, of Hemet, Calif.; 14 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren and nine great great-grandchildren.