Obit: Buker, Louise #2 (1881 - 1961)

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Surnames: Buker, Poppe, Kuester, Jacks

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 04/13/1961

Buker, Louise #2 (20 AUG 1881 - 11 APR 1961)

Mrs. Louise Buker, 79, died at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield.  She had been admitted at the hospital after suffering a fractured hip at the Clark County Hospital in Owen, where she had been residing for the past three years.

Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday in the Immanuel United Church of Christ at Greenwood.  Rev. Orval Egbert officiated, with burial being made in the West Side Cemetery.

The former Louise Poppe was born in Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.) Aug. 20, 1881, and received her education there.  She was married on Nov. 18, 1903 to George Buker, who died in 1936.  The couple farmed in this area.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Edward (Irma) Kuester, Christie, and Mrs. Albert (Elsie) Jacks, Empire, Ore.; three sons, Theodore, Loyal, Walter, Greenwood and Erwin, Willard; a brother, George Poppe, Longwood; a sister, Mrs. Warren Poppe, Mabel, Minn.; 11 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.