Obit: Pope, Albert (1877 - 1948)

Contact: Audrey Roedl

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Surnames: Pope, Scheel, Dalllman, Moore, Gruehlke

----Source: The Loyal Tribune  (Loyal, Clark County, Wis. 02 Dec 1948)

Pope, Albert  (21 FEB 1877 - 16 NOV. 1948)

Private funeral rites were conducted at 1:30 last Thursday afternoon at the Loyal funeral home for Albert Pope, 71, who died at St. Joseph’s hospital in Marshfield on Nov. 16. The Rev. Lee H. Holmes of the Loyal Methodist church conducted the services, and burial was in the Colby cemetery.

Mr. Pope (better known as Bert) was born at Lynn, near Waupaca, and  Feb. 21, 1877, and attended the Lynn Center school and the Weyauwega high school. He was married to Mrs. Catherine Scheel.

He moved from Lynn to the town of Hull, in Marathon county, in 1913, and moved from there to Loyal in 1936. He had served as assessor in the town of Hull.

Surviving him are his wife and four children; Mrs. Alice Dallman of New Orleans, La., Wayne Pope of Plover, Mrs. Harry Moore of Burlington and Mrs. Fred Gruehlke of New London. There are also 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Two sisters are deceases.

Pallbearers at the funeral were Lee Clouse, Frank Oestreich, Franl Duell, Frank Degenhardt, Fred Cox and August Witt.

Out of town people who attended the funeral were: Mrs. Fred Gruehlke of New London, Mr. and Mrs. Pope West and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Pope of Plover, Mr. and Mrs. Malan Wilson and Mrs. Larry Kline of Waupaca, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hair and daughter, Verna, of Weyauwega, Lee Potter of Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Spencer and son Clarence, of Belleville, Mr. and Mrs. Gerhardt Scheel and son of the town of Beaver and Mrs. Charles Boldt and Joe Vogel of Milwaukee.

The Tribune extends to the bereaved its sympathy in the loss of a beloved relative.