Obit: Mohr, Luella May (1920 - 2011)
Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon
Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Mohr, Siems, Kopp, Kenyon, Klatt, Schmidt, Below, Mendenhall, Artac, Young, Hermeling, Novak, Dooley, Bauman, Bjerke
----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) February 23, 2011
Mohr, Luella May (29 May 1920 - 18 February 2011)
Luella May Mohr, 90, of Neillsville died peacefully Feb. 18, 2011, at her home.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, at Buchanan Funeral Home, Neillsville. Pastor Douglas Bjerke officiated. Burial of cremains will take place in Neillsville City Cemetery at a later date. The visitation for family was at 9:30 a.m. and for family and friends, from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, at Buchanan Funeral Home, of Neillsville, following the service, a luncheon was served at the American Legion Hall.
Luella was born May 29, 1920, in the Town of Pine Valley to Joseph and Mary (Siems) Kopp. She received her education in the Riverside School in Levis for 6 years and Silver Crest School in Pine Valley. Her mother died when Luella was a teenager, thus she had to take over housekeeping for the family.
She married Albert H. Mohr on Jan. 26, 1939 at St. John’s Lutheran parsonage in Neillsville with Rev. Bauman officiating. She farmed with her husband in the Town of Pine Valley on various farms they owned. She remained on the farm until the time of her death. Albert died in 2000.
Luella was a homemaker and loved doing jig saw puzzles and especially loved knitting and crocheting; many homes have the beauty of her afghans in them; received for a baby gift, graduation, shower or wedding gift or perhaps just a gift of ‘love’, and she loved to watch and feed the birds, especially the cardinals; and in her younger years she raised beans and cucumbers for the factories, and raised many large gardens, and did much canning for their large family; she also enjoyed cutting up her own firewood with the chain saw, up until the past couple years.
Luella was a loving mother and grandmother and she is survived by her children: Dolores Kenyon of Ione, WA, Harvey (Susanne) Mohr of Plymouth, Kenneth (Karen) Mohr of Neillsville, Edna (Bruce) Klatt of Alma Center, Marvin Mohr of Neillsville, Allen (Debra) Mohr of Neillsville, David (Sharon) Mohr of Neillsville, Paul (Nancy) Mohr of Neillsville, Ruth (Robert) Schmidt of Neillsville; a son-in-law, Lawrence Artac, Greenwood; one sister, Clara Below of Stockton, IL; a sister-in-law, Doris Kopp of Neillsville; 32 grandchildren, 40 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren, also step-grandchildren, step-great-grandchildren and step-great-great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews, cousins, and numerous friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in August 2000, and two daughters: Lois Mendenhall in 2005, and Eunice Artac in 1987; and two brothers: Frederick Kopp as a young child in 1927 and Theodore Kopp in 2005; also two half-siblings and spouses, Frieda (Leo) Young and Helmuth (Mina) Siems; two brother-in-laws, Harold Below, and Ernest Mohr; a sister-in-law, Agnes (Leon) Hermeling; son-in-laws, Rudolph Novak, Elliott Kenyon and Donald Mendenhall; a daughter-in-law, Patricia Mohr; a grandson-in-law Chad Dooley, and one grandson, Toby Klatt; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral arrangements were made by the Buchanan Funeral Home, Neillsville.
(Some added notes and corrections were made by the eldest daughter, the transcriber of this obituary)
This also added by Dolores from a card received and it is so fitting:
As children, we can’t comprehend or fully realize
The meaning of our Mother’s love, how tender and how wise
The patience and forgiveness that are part of every day
The unexpected ‘little things’ she does in her own way.
Years go by before we can look back on life and see
Through older eyes and wiser hearts her love and loyalty
And yet it’s these and other special things we’ll hold so dear
For memories of her steadfast love will keep her ever near.
(Mom you will be dearly missed by your family.)
I did not have the opportunity to get to know my Step Grandmother very well. But what I have come to know about her and very much like her daughter, my step Mother Dolores whom no doubt inherited many of the same traits as her mother, is that a harder working more providing mother and women would be very hard to find indeed. Aaron Kenyon
The Family of Albert and Luella (Kopp) Mohr
Obit: Mohr, Albert Herman A. (1914 - 2000)
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