Obit: Klocke, Reinhardt (1880 - 1960)

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Surnames: Klocke, Lipka, Lawrence, Peissig

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 11/17/1960

Klocke, Reinhardt (28 DEC 1880 - 12 NOV 1960)

Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Curtiss, for Reinhardt M. Klocke, 79, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the Medford Hospital, where he had been a patient for two days.  The Rev. Theodore Predoehl officiated and burial was made in Pine Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Klocke was born in Sheboygan Dec. 28, 1880.  As a small child he moved with his parents to a farm in the town of Hoard (Clark Co., Wis.), where he has since lived.  He married the former Henrietta Lipka of Pittsville Sept. 22, 1915.  She died March 7, 1941.  He was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Larry (Louise) Lawrence, Curtiss, and Mrs. Arthur (Lorraine) Peissig, Chippewa Falls; one brother and seven grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Albert and Clarence Schultz, Lavern Klemetson, Ed Millebrandt, Ernest Neitzel and Herb Goessel.  In charge of the floral offerings were Mesdames Albert and Clarence Schultz, Lester Bowan and Franklin Peissig.