Obit: Scheibe, Emma L. (1874 - 1962)

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Surnames: Scheibe, Ludwig, Hadderly, Lawrence, Rankl, Koffarnus, Hayles, Ziemer, Ellingson, Hayles

----Source: ABBOTSFORD TRIBUNE (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 10/11/1962

Scheibe, Emma L. (4 FEB 1874 - 7 OCT 1962)

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Louise Scheibe, 88, who died Sunday of complications, were held Wednesday afternoon at Peace Evangelical United Church of Christ, Dorchester.

The body lay in state at the Polnaszek Funeral Home until the time when it was taken to the church, where the Rev. Fred Kollath conducted the services at 2 o’clock, during which hymns were sung by Mrs. Frank Rauscher and Mrs. Orlean Pope, with Mrs. E. M. Shaw as organist.

Interment followed in Memorial Cemetery, Dorchester.  The pallbearers were Gordon Anderson, Otto Genrich, George Kadonsky, John Mueller, Oscar Olson and Henry Rau.

Mrs. Scheibe, the former Emma Louise Ludwig, was born Feb. 4, 1874, in Clingan, Germany.  When she was seven years old she came with her parents to America and settled on a farm in the town of Holton.  She was employed in St. Paul, Minn. for a time prior to her marriage to Henry Scheibe, which took place Sept. 15, 1899, in the town of Holton.

The couple operated a farm in the town of Holton until Mr. Scheibe died on Jan. 14, 1921.

For the past three years Mrs. Scheibe made her home with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Koffarnus of the town of Mayville, where her death occurred.

She was a member of Peace Evangelical United Church of Christ and was a charter member of the Holton Homemakers Club.

She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Harold (Thea) Hadderly, Chicago; Mrs. Leslie (Edith) Lawrence, Milwaukee; Mrs. Clarence (Ethel) Rankl, Abbotsford; and Mrs. Oscar (Ruth) Koffarnus, Dorchester; one son, George Scheibe, and a step-son, Arthur Scheibe, Abbotsford; and a step-daughter, Mrs. Della Hayles, Chicago.

There are 23 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

She is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Frieda Ziemer, Coleman; and Mrs. Elsie Ellingson, ? .

Preceding her in death, besides her husband, were a daughter and  a son, and a step-daughter and step-son, as well as two brothers and five sisters.