Obit: Blau, Margaret (1882 - 1963)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Blau, Linster, Thoma, Walker, Balhuis, Gilmore, Haderer, Bergerson, Feuerstein, Haas, Langreck, Prock, Schwellenbach, Kelly

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) February 7, 1963

Blau, Margaret (9 April 1882 - 4 February 1963)

Mrs. Margaret Blau, 80, of Neillsville died suddenly at her home Monday. She had returned home Sunday from Memorial Hospital, where she received care for injuries suffered in a fall in her home last week.

A requiem high mass will be read this (Thursday) morning at 9 o’clock at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Burial will be made in the parish cemetery.  The Rev. Fr. Bernard T. Kelly will officiate.

A Parish Council of Catholic Women rosary was said Wednesday afternoon at the Bergemann Funeral Home. A General rosary was said Wednesday evening.

Mrs. Blau, the former Margaret Linster, daughter of the late Nicholas and Margaret Linster, was born April 9, 1882, in Welviengen, Luxemburg.  In June, 1886, the family came to the United States and located on a farm near Bakerville, and later moved to Clark County.

On April 5, 1910, she was married in Chicago to the late Nolle Blau, who died in 1955. She had made Neillsville her home for many years.  She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and its parish Council of Catholic Women.

Mrs. Blau is survived by a daughter, Leona, of Neillsville, two brothers, Alphonse Linster of Neillsville and William Linster of Penn Yann, N.Y.; three sisters, Mrs. Ben (Susie) Thoma of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Roy (Caroline) Walker of Portland, Ore., and Mrs. Stuart (Virginia) Balhuis of Bradenton, Fla.

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) February 14, 1963

 A requiem high mass was read Thursday morning in St. Mary’s Catholic Church for Mrs. Margaret Blau, 80, of Neillsville, who died February 4, at her home. The Rev. Fr. Bernard T. Kelly officiated. Burial was made in the parish cemetery.  The Parish Council of Catholic Women attended the services in a body.

Pallbearers were: Martin Feuerstein, B. J. Haas, Henry Langreck, Harold Prock, Linus Prock and William Schwellenbach.

People from away here for the services were: Mrs. George Gilmore of Hustisford; Mr. and Mrs. John Linster, Greenwood; Elmer Haderer of Rice Lake; Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Thoma of Wisconsin Rapids and Raymond Bergerson of Northfield.