Obit: Schwarze, Ella Rose (1886 - 1957)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Schwarze, Humke, Rohde, Rossman, Decker, Steiger, Koch 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) August 1, 1957 
 

Schwarze, Ella Rose (6 March 1886 - 27 July 1957) 
 

Mrs. Ella Schwarze, 71, of Greenwood died Saturday afternoon, July 27, at the home of her sister, Mrs. William Steiger, where she had been staying the last three weeks. She became ill two years ago with a heart ailment, and had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Rohde of Greenwood, until she went to the Steiger home. 
 

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church. The Rev. Charles Koch officiated.  Burial was made in the parish cemetery. 
 

Mrs. Schwarze, daughter of the late Henry Humkes, was born March 6, 1886, in the Town of Warner and lived in this vicinity all her life.  Ella Rose Humke and Edward Schwarze were married December 7, 1904, in the West Side Church. After their marriage they farmed five miles northwest of here until his death in October, 1950. 
 

She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Gilbert (Lucille) Rohde of Greenwood; and two sons, Theodore of Marshfield, and Walter of Greenwood, and by 10 grandchildren, three sisters and three brothers: Mrs. Helena Rossman of Spokane, Wash.; Mrs. Meda Decker and Mrs. William (Alma) Steiger of Greenwood; Theodore , Arthur and George Humke of Greenwood.