Obit: Scheibe, Alfred E. Scheibe (1892 - 1961)

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Surnames: Scheibe, Rankl, Koffarnus, Hayles, Grover, Lawrence

----Source: ABBOTSFORD TRIBUNE (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 09/21/1961

Scheibe, Alfred E. Scheibe (2 MAR 1892 - 13 SEP 1961)

Funeral services for Alfred E. Scheibe, 69, of rural Milan, who died Wednesday, were held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Polnaszek Funeral Home.  The Rev. Fred Kollath, pastor of the Peace Evangelical and Reformed Church of Dorchester, officiated at the services, during which Miss Sharon Stubbs of Dorchester sang "In the Garden."  Mrs. Jerome Rankl was pianist.

Military rites were conducted under the auspices of Knaack-Thompson Post No. 865 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Abbotsford.  Members served as pallbearers.  Honorary pallbearers were members of the American Legion, Chapman-Belter Post No. 4, of Athens.

Burial was made in the Dorchester Memorial Cemetery.

Mrs. Scheibe was born in Dorchester (Clark Co., Wis.) March 2, 1892.  He received his education in the Packard School and farmed during his adult years.  He served with Co. G. 109^th Infantry in France during World War I.  Mr. Scheibe was taken to the Veterans Hospital at Wood on Tuesday, after suffering a heart attack in front of the post office at Athens.  He died the following day.

Survivors include two brothers, Arthur and George, Abbotsford, and five sisters, Mrs. Clarence Rankl of Abbotsford; Mrs. Oscar Koffarnus of Dorchester; Mrs. Delia Hayles and Mrs. Theodore Grover of Chicago and Mrs. Leslie Lawrence of Milwaukee.

Among those from away who attended were relatives and friends from Milan, Athens, Edgar, Curtiss, Dorchester, Colby, Milwaukee, and Minnetonka Beach, Minn.