Obit: Fiebig, Herman H. #2 (1870 - 1955)
Contact: Stan
Surnames: Fiebig,
Harrison, Mellen, Stephen, Stephenson, Colby, Ingersoll, Hopkins,
Hemphill, Konecny, Leichtnam
----Source: Abbotsford
Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 12/08/1955
Fiebig, Herman H. (2 Feb.
1870 - 6 Dec. 1955)
Herman H. Fiebig, 85,
died at a Sheboygan hospital, Tuesday afternoon, following a long
illness. The body will be brought here Friday noon and will lie in
state at the Zink Funeral Home until Saturday noon when it will be
taken to the Presbyterian church.
Funeral services will be
conducted at the church at 2:00 o’clock with the Rev. Richard
Harrison officiating. Masonic rites will also be held as Mr. Fiebig
was a member of the Abbotsford lodge. Burial will be made in the
Colby cemetery.
Herman Fiebig was born
Feb. 2, 1870 at Plymouth. He was married to Eva Laura Mellen, May
18, 1892 at Plymouth. They made their home there until 1900 when
they moved to a farm two miles east of Abbotsford. In 1921 they
moved to Abbotsford.
After Mrs. Fiebig’s
death in 1949, he lived here about two years and then, due to ill
health, he went to Sheboygan and made his home with his son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Fiebig.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Fiebig
were active workers in the Presbyterian church at Riverside and
later at Abbotsford. Mr. Fiebig served the church here as elder and
was also president of the Abbotsford Bank.
He is survived by five
children: Alfred and Mrs. Armond (Clara) Stephen, of Milwaukee;
Edgar, Sheboygan; Roger, La Crosse; and Gilbert, Green Bay. His
wife and two children preceded him in death.
There are nine grand
children and three great grand children also surviving.
----Source: Abbotsford
Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 12/15/1955
Services for Herman H.
Fiebig, 85, former resident of Abbotsford, who died at Sheboygan,
Dec. 13, were held at Sheboygan Thursday afternoon. Relatives and
friends from there and Milwaukee attended the rites.
The body was brought to
the Zink Funeral Home here, Friday morning and services were
conducted at the Presbyterian church at Abbotsford Saturday
afternoon at 2:00 o’clock with the Rev. Richard Harrison
officiating.
Masonic rites were also
conducted and pallbearers for the internment, made in the Colby
cemetery, were all members of the Abbotsford lodge, They were W. O.
Colby, Kenneth Ingersoll, Robert Hopkins, Vern Hemphill, Joe
Konecny, and Ed Leichtnam.
Members of the family who
were at the Abbotsford rites included Alfred Fiebig and Mr. and
Mrs. Armond (Clara) Stephanson, Milwaukee; Edgar, Sheboygan; Mr.
and Mrs. Roger Fiebig and two daughters, La Crosse; and Gilbert,
Green Bay.
Besides his five children, Mr. Fiebig is survived by 10 grand children and four great grand children.
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