Obit: Bunke, Wilhelmina (1876 - 1961)

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Surnames: Bunke, Oberg, Herro, Wandsneider, Laedtke, Hoffman

----Source: ABBOTSFORD TRIBUNE (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 04/06/1961

Bunke, Wilhelmina (15 OCT 1876 - 31 MAR 1961)

Funeral services were held at the Polnaszek Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock for Mrs. Wilhelmina Bunke, 83, who died Friday at Milwaukee.  Rev. Theodore Predoehl of St. John’s Lutheran Church officiated at the services during which hymns were sung by Mrs. Ted Klabon and Mrs. Herman Rabska as pianist.

Burial was made in the Milan cemetery.  Pallbearers were Kenneth Nelson, Medford, Howard Neuenfeldt, Dorchester, Gary and Clifford Hoffman, With, Gordon De Lorin, Lanon, and Walter Laedtke, Fond du Lac.

Mrs. Bunke was born in Germany Oct. 10, 1876, and was married there to Frank Bunk.  Mr. and Mrs. Bunke had three children and came to the U.S. in 1902 and lived in Sheboygan, and then came to Abbotsford and Milan areas.  Mr. Bunke died in 1931 and Mrs. Bunke left Milan in 1945.

Surviving her are 7 of the 11 children born to them: Mrs. Lydia Oberg and Mrs. Norman Herro, Milwaukee; Mrs. Viola Wandsneider, Lanon; Mrs. Martha Laedtke, Fond du Lac; Mrs. Bernice Hoffman, Withee, Eric Bunke, Athens, and Emil Bunke, Westport, S.D.  There are 16 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

All of the surviving children except the son from South Dakota, were here for the funeral of their mother.