Obit: Beeckler, Bessie Inez (1884 - 1958)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Beeckler, Waterman, Pickett, Witte, Garbisch, Hoeft, Trimberger, Schmidtke, Spry, Holmes 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) December 11, 1958 
 

Beeckler, Bessie Inez (2 June 1884 - 8 December 1958) 
 

Funeral services will be conducted this afternoon (Thursday) at 1:30 p.m. for Miss Bessie Inez Beeckler, 74, who died Monday evening at her home.  The Rev. Virgil Holmes, pastor of the Methodist Church, will officiate and burial will be made in the Windfall Cemetery at Granton. 
 

Miss Beeckler was born June 2, 1884, in the Town of Lynn, and received her education in the Granton schools and Stevens Point Teachers College.  She taught in the rural schools of the county and in Sheboygan, Stanley, Durand and Oconto, and Minneapolis.  
 

She was a member of Carmi Chapter, No. 60, Order of Eastern Star, at Neillsville. 
 

Surviving are four sisters: Pearle, Daphne, Mrs. Clark (Vera) Waterman, all of Granton, and Mrs. Earl (Tessie) Pickett, Spencer, and a brother, Ben, of Granton. 
 

Pallbearers will be: E. L. Witte, Daniel Garbisch, Ray Hoeft, Hugo Trimberger, William Schmidtke and Lloyd Spry.