BioA: Sommer, Otto & Anna (Golden - 1956)

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Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Sommer, Miller, Stocker

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 03/01/1956

Sommer, Otto & Anna (Golden - 22 FEB 1956)

Neenah - Mr. and Mrs. Otto Sommer, 524 Church St., will be honored on their golden wedding anniversary at a 5 o’clock dinner Sunday for the immediate family and a reception from 7:30 until 9 o’clock Sunday night at the Martin Luther Church parlors.  A special church service will be held in honor of the couple at 7 o’clock at Martin Luther Church.

The couple was married on Feb. 22, 1906, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Green Grove (Clark Co., Wis.).  From 1901 until 1925 Mr. Sommer operated a cheese factory at Thorp.  He operated the Sommer Sales and Service Garage in Spencer until 1946, when he retired and moved to Neenah.  He is a charter member of the Spencer Lions Club and served as a member of the Spencer Village Board for 25 years.  Mrs. Sommer was the former Anna Miller.

Mr. Sommer, 76, and Mrs. Sommer, 71, have two children, Mrs. Walter Stocker and Otto Sommer, both of Neenah.  They have four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.