Obit: Klune, Joseph Albert #2 (1893 - 1964)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Klune, Horvat, Thiel, Cvar, Tipton, Hartung

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) May 28, 1964

Klune, Joseph Albert ( 27 August 1893 - 19 May 1964)

Joseph Albert Klune, 70, of Greenwood, died suddenly of a heart attack, May 19.

Mr. Klune was born August 27, 1893, in Leadville, Colo.  He received his education in Boulder, Mont., and at Butte (Montana) college.  When he was a small child he went to Yugoslavia with his parents.  Later they returned to the United States, settling in Montana.

At Butte he was employed as a grocery clerk and later had his own business. He spent some time in Minnesota and then went to Milwaukee, where he was employed for 12 years.  The Klune’s came to Greenwood, where they operated the Klune tavern for the last 20 years.

Mr. Klune was married August 11, 1929, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in West Allis to Mary Rose Horvat.  He was a member of St. Mary’s Church; the American Slovenian Catholic Union and the Croatian Fraternal Union of America.

Surviving are his wife: two sons, Edward of Appleton, and Joseph Ray of Kaukauna; a daughter, Mrs. Bruce (Delores) Thiel of Greenwood; six grandchildren; two brothers, Rudolph Klune of Boulder, Mont., and William Klune of Albany, Calif.; and two sisters, Mrs. Tony (Pauline) Cvar of El Cerrito, Calif., and Mrs. Walter (Olga Rose) Tipton of Jefferson.

Funeral services were held Saturday morning from St. Mary’s Catholic Church, with the Rev. Edward Hartung officiating.  Military rites were conducted by the Wallis-Hinker Legion Post, No. 238.  Burial was made in St. Mary’s Cemetery.