Obit: Sontag, Sadie (1873 - 1957)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Sontag, Balch, Sales, Youmans, Knoop, Harcey 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) September 5, 1957 
 

Sontag, Sadie (19 March 1873 - 27 August 1957) 
 

Graveside services were conducted Saturday afternoon for Mrs. Jule (Sadie) Sontag, 84, of St. Paul, Minn., who died August 27. The Rev. Frank B. Harcey officiated.  Burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery. 
 

Mrs. Sontag was born March 19, 1873.  As a young girl she made her home with the Balches in Neillsville. In December, 1898, she was married to Jule Sontag here.  Mr. Sontag was an employee of the railroad.  They made their home in Altoona following their marriage and for the past 50 years Mrs. Sontag resided in St. Paul. She had been ill for 20 years. 
 

She was a member of the Orient Chapter of the Order of Eastern Start, St. Paul. 
 

Surviving is a son, Wallace, of St. Paul; a sister, Mrs. Harriet Sales of Bozeman, Mont.; and a granddaughter, Nancy Sontag. 
 

Arrangements for the local service were made by the Georgas Funeral Home. 
 

People from away attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Sontag and daughter, Nancy, St. Paul; Mrs. William Sontag and daughter, Laura Louise, St. Paul; Miss Rita Youmans, Madison; and Miss Clara Knoop, Marshfield.