Obit: Albrecht, Arthur #2 (1898 - 1961)

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Surnames: Albrecht, Spindler, Radlinger, Bartz, Metzke

----Source: ABBOTSFORD TRIBUNE (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 01/19/1961

Albrecht, Arthur #2 (16 JAN 1898 - 14 JAN 1961)

Funeral services for Arthur A. Albrecht, 62, who died suddenly Saturday, were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Dorchester.  The Rev. F. H. Sprengler officiated.  Interment was made in the Dorchester Memorial Cemetery.

Pallbearers were six nephews of the deceased: Fred Albrecht, Kenneth Albright, James Metzke, Dale, Gerald and Robert Spindler.

Mr. Albrecht was born Jan. 16, 1898 in Dodge County and was educated in the Watertown area.  On Nov. 1, 1927, he and the former Erna Spindler were married at Stratford.

For 18 years, Mr. Albrecht operated the Cloverleaf Cheese Factory in the town of Emmett, Marathon County and from 1945 to 1948, he had a cheese factory at Granton.  On March 5, 1948, he purchased the Holton Cheese Factory, northeast of Abbotsford.

Although Mr. Albrecht had suffered a heart attack in 1951, his death occurred unexpectedly at his home Saturday at 6 p.m.

Mr. Albrecht was a member of the Central Wis. Cheese Makers’ Association.

Surviving him are his widow and son, Donald, at home; a daughter, Mrs. Jerome (Betty) Radlinger, and granddaughter, Wulene? Radlinger, Dorchester.

He leaves two brothers and three sisters, Edwin Albrecht and Mrs. Milan Andrich, Milwaukee; George Albrecht and Mrs. Theodore Bartz of Stratford, and Mrs. Herman Metzke, Greenwood.

Relatives and friends attending the funeral came from Chicago, Watertown, Milwaukee, Stratford, Greenwood, Wausau, Marathon, Medford, Marshfield, Spencer, Edgar, Dorchester and Abbotsford.