Surnames: Benzmann, Woempner, Steinke, Schmidt, Bremer, Fitzlaff, Sprengler, Habeck, Busse, Fenske, Nixdorf, Broeske, Baehr 
 

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 10/20/1955  
 

Benzmann, William Ernest (19 Apr. 1868 - 18 Oct. 1955) 
 

William Ernest Benzmann, 87, died Tuesday at 1:20 a.m. at the home of his niece, Mrs. Fred Woempner, with whom he had been making his home the past 11 months. Dropsy and a heart condition caused his death. 
 

Funeral services for Mr. Benzmann, a former resident of Dorchester, will be held at St. Peter’s Lutheran church, at Dorchester, Friday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. Internment will be made in Memorial cemetery. The body is lying in state at the Fuchsgruber Funeral Home in that village. 
 

Mr. Benzmann was born in Germany April 19, 1868, and received his education there. He arrived in the United States on June 24, 1884, and settled in Dorchester, where he farmed and later was employed by the Soo Line Railroad. After the death of his first wife, Bertha Steinke, whom he married Jan. 21, 1913, he was wed to Wilhelmina Schmidt on June 18, 1934. His second wife died Dec. 8, 1954, and since that time he had made his home at the Fred Woempner residence in Abbotsford. 
 

He is survived by a brother, Paul Benzmann, Milan; 12 stepchildren, 15 step-grandchildren and 13 step-great-grandchildren. Three sisters who preceded him in death were Mrs. Pauline Bremer, Summit Lake; Mrs. Frank Fitzlaff and Miss Mathilda Benzmann, Dorchester. 
 

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 10/27/1955  
 

Funeral services for William Benzmann, 87, who died Oct. 18, at the home of his niece, Mrs. Fred Woempner, were held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at St. Peter’s Lutheran church at Dorchester. The Rev. F. H. Sprengler conducted the services. Internment was made in the Memorial cemetery at Dorchester. 
 

Pallbearers were John Habeck, Otto Busse, Albert Fenske, Walter Nixdorf, Elroy Broeske, and Arthur Baehr. 
 

Relatives and friends attending the funeral came from Wyoming, Bowler, Summit Lake, Curtiss, Prentice, Milan, Medford, Unity, Colby, Chippewa Falls, Dorchester and Abbotsford.