Obit: Schmidt, Gustave Adolph (1897 - 1960)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Schmidt, Gloff, Pischer, Lindloff

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) April 28, 1960

Schmidt, Gustave Adolph (4 August 1897 - 24 August 1960)

Gustave Adolph Schmidt, 62, of Rt. 2, Neillsville, died Sunday evening at the Veterans’ Administration Hospital in Tomah, where he had been a patient for 11 years.  He had been in ill health since World War I.

Mr. Schmidt was the son of the late Adolph and Paulina (Gloff) Schmidt.  He was born August 4, 1897, in West Virginia.  When he was a small boy the family moved to the Neillsville area.  He received his education in St. John’s Lutheran School and worked in the Neillsville area until October 21, 1918, when he entered the service at Milwaukee.  He served as a private in the 4^th Company, N. O. C . A. C.  He received his discharge December 30, 1918, at Jackson Barracks, La.

He was a member of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Neillsville.

Mr. Schmidt is survived by four brothers, Frederick of Hot Springs, Ark., Robert of Lake Geneva, Edward of Chicago, Ill., and Emil of Neillsville.  He is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Harold (Emily) Pischer of Neillsville, and Emma Schmidt of Chicago, Ill.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at  2 p.m. from the Bergemann Funeral Home, with the Rev. Norman Lindloff, pastor of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, officiating.  Burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery.