Obit: Wittke, Erna (1887 - 1957)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Wittke, Bardeleben, Garbisch, Heimke, Schlinsog, Kauffman, Harlin, Billman, Knoop, Schultz, Willms, Meihack, Kessler, Sharratt, Adams, Ackerman, Oswald 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) March 28, 1957 
 

Wittke, Erna (12 November 1887 - 23 March 1957) 
 

Funeral services were held Tuesday from the Georgas Funeral Home for Mrs. Ferdinand (Erna) Wittke, 69, Neillsville, Rt. 3.  She died Saturday forenoon at the Memorial Hospital. The Rev. Arthur Oswald officiated. Burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery. 
 

Mrs. Wittke (nee Bardeleben) was born November 12, 1887, in the Town of Pine Valley, and had been a lifelong resident of Clark County.  She received her education in the rural schools of the county and on October 1, 1913, she was married to Ferdinand Wittke at Neillsville. 
 

She is survived by her husband, a son, Lester Wittke on the home farm, and a daughter, Mrs. Alfred (Viola) Garbisch, Granton, Rt. 1.  Four grandchildren and two brothers, Herbert and Robert Bardeleben, both of Neillsville also survive. 
 

Pallbearers were: Anton and William Meihack, Frank Kessler, Gordon Sharratt, Elmer Adams and Arthur Ackerman. 
 

Out of town relatives attending included: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Garbisch and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Heimke, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Schlinsog, Mrs. Everett Kauffman, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schlinsog, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Billman, all of Granton; Miss Clara Knoop, Marshfield; Mrs. Victor Schultz, Eau Claire; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Willms, West Allis; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wittke, Clintonville; Mr. and Ms. Arthur Wittke, and Fred Wittke, Cedar Rapids, Ia.