Obit: Wenzel, John E. #2 (1888 - 1962)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Wenzel, Replogle, Hull

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 03/15/1962

Wenzel, John E. #2 (17 MAR 1888 - 8 MAR 1962)

John E. Wenzel passed away at his home in Withee Thursday, March 8, 1962 at 4:15 p.m., after several months of illness.  He was 73 years, 11 months and 21 days old.

Funeral services were held at 2:00 o’clock Sunday afternoon at Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home with Rev. Ralph Claybaugh reading the final rites.  Burial was made at Riverside Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers were Cecil Looker, Clarence Stephens, Henry House, Wallace Wood, Elmer Venet and Milfred Wenzel.  Mrs. Orpha Marshall sang, accompanied by Mrs. Maxine Christopherson.

Mr. Wenzel was born March 17, 1888 in Sheboygan Co., Wis.  He came to Withee (Clark Co., Wis.) with his parents in 1902 and settled on a farm in the town of Hixon.  In 1915 he was united in marriage to Elvie Replogle, also of Withee.  They farmed in the Town of Hixon until his retirement in 1944.  For the past several years they have lived in the village of Withee.

Surviving are his wife, two children, a son, Basil Wenzel, Withee, and a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Nina) Hull, Marshfield; 10 grandchildren, one great-grandchild and a host of relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, five sisters and one brother.

Relatives and friends from out of town who attended the funeral included: Mrs. Ethel Dekker and Mrs. Lloyd Thomas, Flora, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brovont and Mrs. John Brovont, Camden, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jensen and Mrs. Henry Ottinger, Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. James Jensen, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Replogle and Linda, Waupaca, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Atkin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gaupp and family, and Marge Leslie, Nekoosa, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Lee and E.W. Lee, Chili, Roger and Ronald Hull, Menomonie, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dearth, Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. David Hull and Mrs. Lawrence Christopherson, Thorp, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hansen, Willard, Mr. and Mrs. Henry House, Abbotsford, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hull and family, Marshfield.