Obit: Fenske, Gustave August (1880 - 1957)
Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon
Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Fenske, Schmitzer, Montag,
Beninga
----Source: Clark County Press
(Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) March 21, 1957
Fenske, Gustave August (10 August 1880 -
17 March 1957)
Funeral services were held Wednesday at
the Gilbertson Funeral Home here for Gustave August Fenske, 76, who
died at 11 o’clock Sunday night at the home of his son,
Herbert, on Route 1, Chili. Burial was made at Hillside
Cemetery, Menasha.
Rev. Marvin Beninga, pastor of American
Lutheran Church, officiated.
Mr. Fenske was born in Germany on August
10, 1880, and came to Clark County, where he settled in the Town of
Fremont with his parents, at the age of three.
He was married to Gertrude Schmitzer at
Menasha on July 4, 1906. He had resided with his son,
Herbert, for the past seven months.
Survivors include: three sons, Floyd of Menasha, Kenneth and Herbert of Chili; a sister, Mrs. Anna Montag, Chili; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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