Obit: Hagen, Gustave Ernest (1876 - 1954)
Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon
Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Hagen, Rodman, Johlke, Briggs, Nulton,
Gall, Noll, Campbell, Trogner, Wachholz, Naedler
----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville,
Clark Co., WI.) October 21, 1954
Hagen, Gustave Ernest (28 November 1876 - 13
October 1954)
Gustave Ernest Hagen, 77, of 703 E. 5th Street
Neillsville, died Wednesday, October 13, at the new Memorial
Hospital from complications.
Funeral services were held Friday at 2:00 p.m.
from the Bergemann Funeral Home. The Rev. Virgil Nulton,
pastor of the Methodist Church, officiated. Burial was in the
Neillsville City Cemetery.
Mr.
Hagen was born November 28, 1876, in Germany. He came to this
country with his parents when he was five years of age. They
settled in Marathon County near Medford, where he received his
education in the public school. He worked in the woods at
logging until 46 years ago. Then he moved to Neillsville, where he
worked on the railroad. He was forced by illness to quit his
job and later worked for the city of Neillsville until two years
ago, when he retired.
Mr.
and Mrs. Hagen celebrated their golden wedding last March.
He
was one of the patients moved from the old hospital to the Memorial
Hospital earlier the day of his death.
He
was married March 29, 1904, at Neillsville to Ida Rodman, who
survives him. Surviving also are one daughter, Mrs. Arnold
(Irene) Johlke of Milwaukee; two sons, Ernest of the Town of York
and Vernon of Milwaukee; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild;
and one brother, William Hagen of West Allis.
His
parents and one brother preceded him in death.
Randy Briggs, as vocalist, sang two selections,
accompanied by Mrs. Virgil Nulton at the organ.
Pallbearers were: Edwin Gall, Ray Noll, George
Campbell, Neal Trogner, Leonard Wachholz and Henry
Naedler.
Out of town relatives and friends attending the rites were: Mr. and Mrs. Warner Rodman, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Rodman, all of Athens; Mr. and Mrs. R. Rodman, Milwaukee; Ernest Hagen of the Town of York; Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Johlke and Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hagen of Milwaukee.
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