Obit: Rossow, Albert (1877 - 1954)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Rossow, Brandt, Aalto, Lemberg, Pratt, Klozinski, Goetz, Stang, Kusa, Rottjer, Ysted, Niemi, Schmidt

----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark Co., WI.) December 2, 1954

Rossow, Albert  (25 October 1877 - 27 November 1954)

Albert Rossow, 77, Loyal died at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, at 10 a.m. Saturday, November 27.  The cause of death was the complications of old age.

He was born October 25, 1877, in Germany and came to the United States with his parents when he was two years of age. They settled in the Greenwood area and he received his education in the rural schools of that area.  All of his life he has lived in or near Loyal or Greenwood.

He is survived by one sister, Mrs. John Brandt of Greenwood, and five brothers: Paul of Owen, Otto and Charles of Loyal, William of Greenwood, and Fred Address unknown.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, November 30, at the Myre funeral Home, with the Rev. E. E. Aalto officiating, and burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers were: August Lemberg, Ralph Pratt, William Klozinski, John Goetz, Louis Stang, and William Kusa.  The hymns, "In the Garden" and "Softly and Tenderly" were sung by Mrs. Romaine Rossow, and Miss Margaret Ann Rottjer was organist.

Relatives from out of town who attended the services were: William Rossow, Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Ysted, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Rossow, and John Niemi, Greenwood; and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schmidt and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rossow, Neillsville.