Obit: Lieske, Theodore R. #2 (1869 - 1951)

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Surnames: Lieske, Boeldt, Stange

----Source: Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark Co., Wis.)   04/12/1951

Lieske, Theodore R. #2 (31 MAY 1869 - 5 APR 1951)

Theodore Rudolph Lieske died at his home in the Town of Loyal (Clark Co., Wis.). at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, April 5, 1951, at the age of eighty-one years, ten months and four days.  His death was caused by old age complications.

Funeral services were held in Trinity Lutheran Church at two p.m. Monday with the Rev. J. C. Langholz officiating.  Miss Jeanne Nysted at the organ accompanied Mrs. Romaine Rossow as she sang, "Asleep in Jesus, Blessed Sleep," "Abide with Me," and "Who Knows How Soon My Days Are Ended."

Burial was made in the Loyal Cemetery.  The pallbearers were Ernest Hinkelman, Herbert Hinkelman, Julius Ehlert, Max Neitzel, Alfred Mandel and Romie Stange.

Mr. Lieske was born May 31, 1869 on a farm in the Town of Clyman, Dodge County, where he lived until January 1911.  In 1894 he was married to Miss Caroline Boeldt of Watertown Township, Jefferson Co.  They lived in the Town of Watertown from January 1911 to November 1912, when they came to the farm in the Town of Loyal.  It was in this home that Mrs. Lieske died on their thirty-eighth wedding anniversary, July 5, 1932.  Mr. Lieske was also preceded in death by a son and a daughter, and by two sisters and four brothers.

He is survived by four children, Miss Edna Lieske and Arthur Lieske on the home farm; Mrs. Frank (Bertha) Stange and Herman Lieske, Loyal, and by five grandchildren.

Among those from out of town attending the funeral were: Mrs. E. V. Vinton, Groton, S.D.; Mr. Geo. M. Kuntz, Aberdeen, S.D.; Mrs. Ray Van Guilder and Miss Mary Moats, Minneapolis, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Huedner and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Herold, Watertown; Mr. DeForest Hashbarger, Madison, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Stange, Durand.