Obit: Sternitzky, Frilla (1895 - 1962)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Sternitzky, Lewis, Wesenberg, Rogers, Hahn, Yanski, Driscoll, Schrieder, Schreiber

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) October 18, 1962

Sternitzky, Frilla (8 March 1895 - 14 October 1962)

Mrs. Oscar Sternitzky, 67, of Granton, died of a heart attack at Memorial Hospital in Neillsville Sunday after she had accompanied her husband, who had suffered a heart attack a short time earlier.   Mr. Sternitzky suffered his attack while paying respects to a friend, who was lying in state at the Gilbertson Funeral Home in Granton.  Mrs. Sternitzky, who had accompanied her husband here, was then seized by the fatal attack.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. from Zion Lutheran Church in Granton.  The Rev. L. E. Schreiber will be in charge. Burial will be made in the parish cemetery.

Mrs. Sternitzky was the former Frilla Lewis, born March 8, 1895, in Richland County.  On May 1, 1912, she was married to Oscar Sternitzky in Richland County.  With the exception of a year and one-half while they were in Marshfield, the couple had lived in the Town of Lynn.

She is survived by her husband, who remains in Memorial Hospital; three daughters, Mrs. Fred (Vera) Wesenberg of Granton; Mrs. Ralph (Violet) Rogers and Mrs. Luzern (Verna) Hahn, both of Marshfield; and a son, Oscar, Jr., of Granton.  Other survivors include 22 grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Allie Yanski of Boscobel, Mrs. Martha Driscoll of Beloit and Mrs. Julius Schrieder of Spencer.

Pallbearers will be Delmar, Clarence, Duane, Leon and George Sternitzky and Leslie Lewis.