Obit: Hoeft, Frank Albert (1883 - 1958)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Hoeft, Moenicke, Drescher, Lepori, Anderegg, Nickel, Sternitzky, Ure, Johnson, Reisner, Schreiber  
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) December 4, 1958 
 

Hoeft, Frank Albert (3 June 1883 - 29 November 1958) 
 

Frank Albert Hoeft, 80, Granton, died Saturday at St. Joseph’s’ Hospital, Marshfield.  Death was attributed to a heart condition. 
 

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday from the Gilbertson Funeral Home, with the Rev. L. E. Schreiber, pastor of the Zion Lutheran Church, officiating.  The body was taken to Tigerton for burial.   
 

Mr. Hoeft was born June 3, 1883, in Germany.   
 

At the age of five he came to the United States with his parents, locating near Tigerton, where he received his education.  Following his marriage to the former Ottelia Moenicke on October 29,. 1915, in Canada, they farmed in the Town of Lynn for 20 years.  The past several years he had made his home in Granton. 
 

He is survived by his wife and the following children: Ray Hoeft, Granton; Mrs. Carl (Frances) Drescher, Neillsville; Ewald Hoeft, Green Bay; Mrs. Steve (Eileen) Lepori, Granton; Mrs. Irwin (Arleen) Anderegg, Loyal; and 11 grandchildren. 
 

Pallbearers were: Ray Nickel, Erwin and Ray Sternitzky, Robert Ure, Harvey Johnson and Allen Reisner.