Obit: Mitzlaff, Elsie (1883 - 1955)
Contact: Stan
Surnames: Mitzlaff, Gebert, Sprengler, Boss, Schultz, Olson,
Kramer, Jacobi, Beilfuss, Nolte, Jensen, Weitzmann
----Source: Abbotsford Tribune
(Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 07/14/1955
Mitzlaff, Elsie (20 Apr. 1883 - 12 July
1955)
Mrs. Elsie Mitzlaff, Milwaukee, died
Tuesday morning, July 12, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John
Gebert, at Stetsonville.
Mrs. Mitzlaff was visiting her daughter
since May 12 and was ill for some time. The body is at the Zink
Funeral Home. Services will be held in the Lutheran church at
Abbotsford at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, July 15.
----Source: Abbotsford Tribune
(Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 07/28/1955
Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie Mitzlaff,
72, were held Friday afternoon, July 15, at two o’clock at
the Christ Lutheran church with the Rev. F. H. Sprengler
officiating. Internment was made in the town of Holton
cemetery.
The pall bearers were Walter Boss, George
Schultz, Frank Schultz, Harry Olson, Anton Kramer and Henry
Jacobi.
The flowers were carried by the Misses
Lois Jensen, Donna Gebert, Clarice and Audrey Beilfuss.
Mrs. Elsie Mitzlaff, nee Schmidt, was
born April 20, 1883, in Milwaukee. When she was two years old, her
parents moved to a farm near Stetsonville.
In 1904 she married Louis Mitzlaff and
they lived on his farm in the Town of Holton. He died in 1941 and
in 1946 Mrs. Mitzlaff moved to Milwaukee and made her home with her
daughter, Mrs. Gordon Nolte.
In May she came to visit and while at the
home of another daughter, Mrs. John Gebert, Stetsonville, suffered
several heart attacks and died in her sleep, Tuesday morning, July
12.
Surviving her are four daughters, Mrs.
John (Geraldine) Gebert, Stetsonville; Mrs. Chris (Beatrice)
Jensen, Colby; Mrs. Rueben (La Verna) Platterter, Iowa City, Iowa;
and Mrs. Gordon (Adeline) Nolte, Milwaukee. One sister, Mrs. Emil
(Clara) Weitzmann, and 14 grand children also survive.
Relatives attending the funeral services besides the family came from Milwaukee, Medford, Stetsonville and Colby.
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