Obit: Finder, Louie C. (1900 - 1962)

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Surnames: Finder, Kanzenbach, Lawrence, Meskie, Vandeberg, Jacobi, Langfeldt, Jacobson, Benedict, Rowe, Free, Holub, McCarty, Lautenbach, Williams, Mauer

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.)  January 4, 1962

Finder, Louie C. (10 September 1900 - 2 January 1962)

Funeral services have been tentatively set for Saturday afternoon from the Georgas Funeral Home for Louie Finder, 61, of Rt. 2 Neillsville, who died shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday at his home.

Definite arrangements are being held pending the arrival late Wednesday of his son from Fort Benning, Ga.

Mr. Finder suffered a heart attack shortly after his evening meal. He did not feel well, and apparently suffered a second attack after the arrival of the physician and ambulance which was to take him to the hospital.

Mr. Finder several years ago remodeled the old Al-Aboard Café, which had been made from a railroad car and moved it from its location near the railroad tracks on Hewett Street to a wooded spot near McCarty’s Tavern in the Town of Levis.  In recent years he had driven a school bus.

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) January 11, 1962

Funeral services were held Saturday from the Georgas Funeral Home for Louie C. Finder, 61, Rt. 2 Neillsville, who died January 2, at his home of a heart attack. The Rev. Lloyd Mauer of the Methodist Church officiated and burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

Mr. Finder was born September 10, 1900, in Dane County, the son of the late Louie and Cecelia (Kanzenbach) Finder.  He came with his parents to Clark County in 1903. The family located on a farm in the Town of Weston.

On November 27, 1938, he was married to the former Olive Lawrence in Neillsville. Since his marriage Mr. Finder and his family have resided in the towns of Levis and Dewhurst.  He did car repair work and had been a school bus driver for the last 10 years.

He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Betty, at home; and a son, Lester Finder, who is in the army, at Ft. Benning, GA.  He is also survived by three sisters and three brothers: Mrs. Minnie Meskie; Cecelia, Bertha, William, Fred and August Finder, all of the Neillsville area.

Pallbearers were: Edward Holub, Fred McCarty, Louie Lautenbach, Larry Jacobi, Orin Williams and Walter Finder.  Two hymns, "In the Garden" and "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," were sung by Nyle Benedict, accompanied by Mrs. Milford Rowe.

People from out of town here for the service were: Lester Finder, Ft. Benning, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Vandeberg, Horace Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jacobi, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Langfeldt and Mr. and Mrs. Byrl Lawrence, all of Marshfield; Mr. and Mrs. Francis Jacobson, Pittsville; Mr. and Mrs. Nyle Benedict, Greenwood; Mr. and Mrs. Milford Rowe and Mrs. Herb Free of Granton.