Obit: Franzmeier, Esther Rose (1904 - 1956)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Franzmeier, Humke, Schweinler, Timmler, Slock, Stafford, Koch 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) December 13, 1956 
 

Franzmeier, Esther Rose (3 September 1904 - 10 December 1956) 
 

Word received here Monday by relatives of the death of Mrs. Paul Franzmeier, 52, who died suddenly at her home in Norwood, Minn.  
 

Funeral services will be held Thursday, December 13, at 2 p.m. at the Immanuel West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church.  Rev. Charles Koch will officiate. Burial will be in the West Side Cemetery. 
 

Mrs. Franzmeier, the former Esther Rose Humke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Humke, was born September 3, 1904, in Greenwood.  She was married January 22, 1931, to Rev. Paul Franzmeier at the West Side Church, then pastor of that church.  For 12 years after their marriage they resided here, leaving in 1943 to make their home in New Albin, Ia., for 10 years.  In 1953 they moved to Norwood, Minn., where they have resided ever since. 
 

Before her marriage, Mrs. Franzmeier was employed for some time at the Indian school in Neillsville. She was organist at the West Side Church for many years; she was also an officer in the West Side Ladies Aid, while she lived here. 
 

She is survived by her husband, two sons, Richard and Donald, who attend school in Minneapolis, one granddaughter, Karen Franzmeier; her father, Theodore Humke of Greenwood; four sisters and two brothers: Mrs. Francis (Irene) Schweinler of Mosinee; Mrs. Fred (Rose) Timmler of Greenwood; Mrs. Louis (Cora) Slock of Eau Claire; Mrs. Willard (Vera) Stafford of Milwaukee, Harold Humke, of Nekoosa, and Everett Humke of Rochester, Minn. 
 

She was preceded in death by her mother, who died March 29, 1953; one brother, Herbert, who was killed in the service in England in 1944; and one sister, Irma, who died in infancy.