Obit: Younker, Mae #2 (1910 - 1957)

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Surnames: Younker, Stange, Keefe, Brandt, Pockrandt

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 03/14/1957

Younker, Mae #2 (1 MAY 1910 - 13 MAR 1957)

Mrs. Rudolph Younker, 46, who came to Abbotsford three years ago from Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.), died at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 13, 1957, at the University Hospital, Madison where she had been taken for treatment of a brain tumor.

The body will repose at the Zink Funeral Home until the time of the funeral services Saturday morning at 9:30 o’clock at St. Bernard’s Catholic Church.  Officiating at the funeral Mass will be the pastor, the Rev. Raymond Schulz, who also will conduct the burial rites at Abbotsford Cemetery.

Mrs. Younker, the former Mae Austin Stange, was born May 1, 1910, in Wausau and received her education in the town of Hoard (Clark Co.).  Her marriage to Rudolph Younker took place Nov. 8, 1933, in St. Louis Parsonage in Dorchester.

The Younkers resided in Curtiss and Marshfield for a short time after their marriage, going to Greenwood from Marshfield.

Survivors include her husband, her mother, Mrs. Mae Keefe, Wausau; and five children, Mrs. Nyle (Marie) Brandt, Loyal; Mrs. Verlyn (Loretta) Pockrandt, Loyal; and Darlene, Sharon and Dennis at home.  Twin sons and a daughter died in infancy.

Also surviving are three grandchildren, a brother, John Stange of Wausau, and a sister, Mrs. Sadie Wade, Milwaukee.

Mrs. Younker was a member of the Altar Society of St. Bernard’s Church.