Obit: Hanchman, Louise (1865 - 1963)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Hanchman, Lenzkow, Remus, Bartell, Brandt, Lucas, Schwellenbach, Ziegler, Westphal, Mayer, Lehman, Bruemmer, Schueler, Gosse, Gamache, Keuer, Lindloff

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

Hanchman, Louise (8 January 1865 - 7 November 1963)

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church for Mrs. Louise Hanchman, 98, of Neillsville.  She died November 7, of old age complications.  The Rev. Norman Lindloff officiated. Burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

Mrs. Hanchman, the former Louise Lenzkow, was born January 8, 1865, in Germany.  Her husband was the late Herman Hanchman.

She is survived by a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Tena Hanchman of Eau Claire; a half sister, Mrs. Amelia Remus of Neillsville; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Hanchman was a member of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and its Ladies Aid.

Pallbearers were: Paul Bartell, John Brandt, Max Lucas, William Schwellenbach, Alvin Ziegler and Claude Westphal.  Funeral arrangements were made by the Georgas Funeral Home.

Mrs. Harold Mayer, accompanied by Victory Lehman, sang "Let Me Be Thine Forever" and "Abide with Me."

People from away attending the funeral were Mrs. Tena Hanchman, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ziegler and family of Eau Claire; Rev. and Mrs. Darryl G. Bruemmer and family of Eotzen, Minn.; Elfrieda Schueler and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gosse of Abbotsford; Mrs. Otelea Gamache of Oshkosh; and Mrs. Laura Keuer of Granton.