Obit: Demand, Harry D. #2 (1877 - 1962)

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Surnames: Demand, Fricke, Draheim, Tresch

----Source: ABBOTSFORD TRIBUNE (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 05/24/1962

Demand, Harry D. #2 (25 MAY 1877 - 18 MAY 1962)

Funeral services for Harry D. Demand, who died May 18, 1962, were held Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Polnaszek Funeral Home.  He would have been 85 years old May 28.

The Rev. Douglas Oyan, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Marshfield, conducted the services, during which Miss Dorothy Kieser and Mrs. Weldon Brown Jr. sang "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" and "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me."

Pallbearers for the interment, which was made in the Abbotsford Cemetery, were W. O. Colby, Clarence Dolan, Alvin Holtzhausen, Martin Larson, Louis Mauritz and M. C. Thompson.

Harry Dean Demand was born at Plymouth May 25, 1877, and lived in that area until he was 18 years old, when the family moved to Marathon County, near Riverside.

He was united in marriage to Miss Anna Fricke of Colby on Nov. 24, 1904.  They lived in Abbotsford for 48 years.  Mrs. Demand preceded her husband in death on April 8, 1952.

For the past 10 years Mr. Demand made his home with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tresch, at Evansville, where his death occurred.

Mr. demand was a member of the Royal Neighbors, Camp 2808, of Abbotsford.

He is survived by two sons, Erhart of Sheboygan Falls and Lloyd of Alturas, Calif., and two daughters, Mrs. Janet Draheim of Canyon City, Ore., and Mrs. Joe (Sarah) Tresch of Evansville.

Also surviving are five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.