Obit: Fahrenbach, William #3 (1874 - 1960)

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Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Fahrenbach, Dunow, Wredmond, Leiders, Witt, White, Schraufnagel, Friesener

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 06/09/1960

Fahrenbach, William #3 (7 NOV 1874 - 29 MAY 1960)

Funeral services for William Fahrenbach Sr., 85, who passed away Sunday evening, May 29, 1960, at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, where he had been admitted a day earlier, were held on Wednesday, June 1, at 2:00 o’clock at the Curtiss Evangelical Lutheran Church.  The Rev. Donald Olson officiated and burial was made at Pine Hill Cemetery.

Miss Bunee Kraut, accompanied by Miss Judy Laabs, sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Beyond the Sunset."  The floral tributes were carried by granddaughters.  The pallbearers were O.A. Laabs, A.M. Erickson, Albert Klessig, Art Thompson, Franklin Kraut and Franklin Peissig.

William Fahrenbach was born on Nov. 7, 1874 at Witzenhausen, Germany.  He came to the U.S. in 1881 and settled in the Stetsonville area.  He was married on July 7, 1904 to Mary Dunow.  They moved to Curtiss (Clark Co., Wis.) in 1916 and lived there since.  He retired in 1943.

Survivors are his wife, two sons and six daughters, William Jr. of Abbotsford, Herbert of rural Curtiss, Mrs. Margaret Wredmond of Wausau, Mrs. Orville (Lillian) Leiders of Abbotsford, Mrs. Harvey (Irene) Witt of Curtiss, Mrs. Paul (Minnie) White of Montgomery, Ill., Mrs. Eldred (Evelyn) Schraufnagel of Tomah, Mrs. Walter (Bernice) Friesener of St. Paul, Minn..  A son, Elroy, lost his life in World War II.  Two brothers, Charles Fahrenbach of Medford, Hans Fahrenbach of Ironwood, Mich., nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive.