Obit: Clouse, Clara #2 (1892 - 1961)

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Surnames: Clouse, Wittlinger, Lakosky, Hardrath, Bauer, Miller, Songstad, Lang, Becker, Ayers

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 01/11/1962

Clouse, Clara #2 (18 NOV 1892 - 28 DEC 1961)

Mrs. Fred Clouse, 69, town of Beaver (Clark Co., Wis.), was buried Saturday afternoon, Dec. 30 in the Pine Grove Cemetery, with funeral services being held at Trinity Lutheran Church.  The Rev. V.A. Ganz officiated and the Myre Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.  Mrs. Clouse passed away at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 28, 1961, at Memorial Hospital in Neillsville.  She had been in ill health for the past three weeks.

She was the former Clara Wittlinger, born Nov. 18, 1892, in the town of Dale near New London.  She came to Riplinger with her parents at the age of nine and lived there until her marriage to Fred Clouse on Sept. 29, 1909.  The couple settled on a farm in the Loyal area and lived there until their retirement in 1942, when they moved to their present home in the town of Beaver.

Mrs. Clouse was a member of the Women’s Society and Aid of Trinity Lutheran Church, and of the Loyal Garden Club.

Surviving are her husband, five sons, Hugh, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Allen, Waukesha; Glen, Loyal; Alvin, Des Moines, Iowa, and James, Gadsden, Alabama; two daughters, Mrs. Clarence (Maybelle) Lakosky, Ojust, Florida; and Mrs. Alden (Ethel) Hardrath, Owen; 18 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; six sisters, Mrs. George (Lena) Abuer, Wis. Rapids; Mrs. Nada Miller and Mrs. Milton (Lula) Songstad, Milwaukee; Mrs. Julius (Viola) Lang and Mrs. Otto (Gertrude) Becker, Owen, and Mrs. Walter (Esther) Ayers, Spencer, and a brother, Charles Wittlinger, Amery.

She preceded in death by three sons, a daughter and a brother.