Obit: Servaty, Mrs. John (Edith) #3 (1870 - 1961)

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Surnames: Servaty, Hyatt, Gemuenden

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 09/14/1961

Servaty, Mrs. John (Edith) #3 (12 SEP 1870 - 4 SEP 1961)

Although she hadn’t resided in this community since 1936, Mrs. John Servaty cherished the friendship of many friends in the Owen and Withee communities who were saddened when they learned of their loss in her death which occurred Sept. 4^th, 1961.

Had her life been spared one week longer she would have reached the age of 91 years.  However, she succumbed at 10:20 a.m. Sept. 4 at Grandview Hospital, Ironwood, Mich., after suffering a heart attack.  For the past several months, however, she had been treated for a heart condition, first becoming ill while visiting her grandson, William Gemuenden and family at Duluth, Minn.  She was hospitalized on May 30^th in a Duluth hospital where she was treated until being transferred to the hospital in Ironwood on the 26^th of July, where she remained until she passed quietly and peacefully away, well prepared to be received by her maker.

Funeral services were conducted at Hurley Wednesday, Sept. 6 with Rev. Edward Ketcham officiating.  Thursday afternoon graveside services were held at Neillsville where she was laid alongside of her husband, the late John J. Servaty, who passed away Dec. 23, 1946.  Rev. Mauer of Neillsville officiated.

Born Sept. 12, 1870, at Prescott, Wis., Mrs. Servaty, nee Edith Hyatt, moved with her parents to River Falls, where she received her elementary and high schooling prior to preparing herself for the teaching profession, which she practiced at Neillsville and Thorp in later years.  On June 26, 1890, she was united in marriage to John Servaty in a ceremony performed at River Falls.  The couple later moved to Neillsville and then to Owen (Clark Co., Wis.), establishing a home here in 1915.  They made their home here until their retirement in 1936 when they moved to their summer home on Lake Namekagon where she resided until 1946 when she moved to Hurley to make her home with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Herman (Madeline) Gemuenden.

Mourning the loss of the warmth and factual companionship of the deceased is the one daughter, Mrs. Gemuenden, two sons, Claire J. Servaty, Long Beach, Miss., and Lynn D. Servaty, Shreveport, La.; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.