Obit: Giese, Bruno (1883 - 1956)

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Surnames: Giese, Saey, Quam, Severson

----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark County, WI 06 Dec 1956)

Giese, Bruno (07 DEC 1883-22 NOV 1956)

Word of the death of Bruno A. Giese was received in Loyal this week. The family farmed on the Wm. Pockrandt farm four miles east of Loyal from 1917 to 1933. The following obituary appeared in the Lodi Enterprise.

Bruno Arthur Giese, 72, of rural Sauk City, died suddenly Thursday November 22. He was born on December 7, 1883 in the town of Granville in Milwaukee County. He spent his youth in Milwaukee area where he attended school and received his early education.

As a young man he traveled westward to the rather sparsely settled state of Idaho, where he homesteaded land for ten years. It was while living in Idaho that he met Elizabeth Saey to whom he was married in May of 1909.

When the Giese family returned to Wisconsin they lived a short time at Random Lake, later moving to Clark County where they were engaged in farming near Loyal and Granton, Wis.

In 1933 they came to the Lodi area where they operated a farm two miles south of Lodi.

Nine years ago Mr. Giese moved to his present home about four miles west of Sauk City. He was a member of the Methodist church in Lodi.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Gilbert Quam of Lodi and Mrs. Olaf Severson of rural Lodi, and one son, Arthur, of Madison; six grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Hilda Thom, Janesville, Mrs. Ben Tewes of West Allis and Miss Frieda Giese, Milwaukee, and one brother, Alex , of Elkhart Lake.

He was preceded in death by his wife, who passed away in 1935 and by one son, who died in 1917 1t the age of two years.

Mrs. Mary Jean Coeres sang and was accompanied by Mrs. Blanche Menes at the organ. Services were held in the Methodist church with Rev. A. E. Weittenhiller officiating. Burial took place in Mt. Pleasant cemetery, Lodi. Six nephews served as pallbearers.