Obit: Sollberger, Albert (1894 - 1964)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Sollberger, Dulvi, Poertner, Upton, Baumel, Sherman, Barr, Mattson, Jolivette, Smiley, Elliott, McCausland, Coulliard, Green, Volk, Cattanach, Dallman, Leidholdt, Scott, Schoen, Bourfka, Kohlbrak, Hall, Nelson, Spears, Clumpner, Carr, Barbegla, Schroeder, Jonkel, Parker, Olson, Fahey, Van Horn, Christen, Klatt, Jarolimek, Horak, Bachman, Kapfer, Dahnert

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) May 7, 1964

Sollberger, Albert (8 August 1894 - 5 May 1964)

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday from the Georgas Funeral Home on East 5^th Street for Albert Sollberger, 69, of Neillsville, who died Tuesday afternoon from gunshot wounds reported to be self-inflicted.

The service will be conducted by readers of the First Church of Christ Scientist, of which he was a member.  Burial will be made in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

A retired employee of the Northern States Power Company, Sollberger had been ill for some time.  He had recently returned home from Memorial Hospital.

Members of the immediate family include his wife and a son, Leonard "Mickey", of Neillsville; and a daughter, Mrs. Gavin (Helen) Upton of Black River Falls.

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) May 14, 1964

Funeral services were held last week Friday afternoon from the Georgas Funeral Home for Albert Sollberger, 69, of Neillsville, who died May 5, at his home.  Mrs. Henry Dahnert, Reader of the First Church of Christ Scientist, officiated at the service. Burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

Mr. Sollberger was born August 8, 1894, in Monroe, son of the late John and Elizabeth (Dulvi) Sollberger.  He had been employed for 39 years by the Northern States Power Co., where he worked as a meter tester.  He retired from this work in 1958.  He served in the postal service branch of the army during World War I.  He was a member of the Masonic lodges of Neillsville and Merrillan, and a member of the First Church of Christ Scientist.

Mr. Sollberger was an avid outdoorsman, loving hunting and fishing.  In the last few years he took very much interest in the conservation of trees in this area.

On November 5, 1928, he was married to the former Frances Poertner in Winona, Minn.

Surviving Mr. Sollberger are his wife; a son, Leonard (Mickey), of Neillsville; and a daughter, Mrs. Gavin (Helen) Upton of Black River Falls.  Other survivors include two grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Frieda Baumel of Eau Claire, and Mrs. Bertha Sherman of Merrillan; three brothers, John and William Sollberger of Rt.2 Neillsville and Ernest of Athens.

Pallbearers were: Charles Barr, John Mattson, Lee Jolivette, Leland Smiley, Clifford Elliott and Hugh McCausland.  Honorary pallbearers were: Clark Coulliard, Neil Green, Perry Volk, Robert Cattanach, Victor Dallman and Rudy Leidholdt.

Organ music was played by Mrs. Jess W. Scott.

People from out of town attending the service were: Mr. and Mrs. Gavin Upton, Debra and Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Upton, Mrs. Arne Schoen, Mrs. Adolph Bourfka, Sr., all of Black River Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kohlbrak, Jr., Mrs. Frieda Baumel, Miss Myrtle Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Elliott and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Nelson, all of Eau Claire; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sollberger of Athens; Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Spears, Mrs. Josephine Clumpner of Minneapolis, Minn.; Harvey Sherman of Merrillan; Mrs. Mildred Poertner, Russell Carr, Mrs. Vonettea Barbegla, Mrs. Faith Barbegla and Mrs. June Schroeder, all of St. Louis, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. George Jonkel, Jr., and family of Huron, S. D.; Lee and Dale Jolivette of Greenwood; Leland Smiley of Thorp; Hugh McCausland, Rudy Leidholdt of Chippewa Falls; Clark Coulliard of Owen; Neil Green of Curtiss; Perry Volk, Harold parker and Roy Olson of Loyal; Victor Dallman of Colby; Robert Cattanach and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fahey of Stanley; Mrs. Leonard Nelson, Mrs. Kate Van Horn, Arthur Christen, of Humbird; Mr. and Mrs. Chester Klatt, of Alma Center; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jarolimek, Joseph Horak, of Humbird;  Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bachman of Stone Lake; Mr. and Mrs. Dick Kapfer and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Kapfer of Rockford, Ill.