Obit: Whittemore, James A. (1908 - 1962)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Whittemore, Sperling, Hauke, Braatz, Blum

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 06/14/1962

Whittemore, James A. (12 APR 1908 - 9 JUN 1962)

James Allen Whittemore, a resident of the Withee (Clark Co., Wis.) community for 54 years was place in his final resting place at Riverside Cemetery when final rites were conducted at 2:00 o’clock yesterday afternoon, June 13.

He passed away Sunday at Victory Memorial Hospital, Stanley, where he was admitted the previous Thursday for treatment of an illness that had kept him from his employment at the Master Package Corp. for the past several months.

The Rev. James R. Stone, pastor of the Alliance Church, Owen, officiated at the service conducted from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home.  Serving as pallbearers were Edward LePage, Walter Englebretsen, Howard Blazer, Frank Konieczny, Howard Anderson and Clarence Pyatt.  Carrying floral offerings were Mrs. Edward LePage, Mrs. Pete Boxrucker, Mrs. John Lukowicz and Mrs. Arthur Vetterkind.

Born April 12, 1908, at Withee, where he received his schooling, the deceased was then employed at the Owen Canning Corp. until the outbreak of World War II.  During the war years he worked in the Kaiser Ship Yards in California.  When he returned to this community he obtained employment at the Master Package Corp. where he worked until his illness.

He was unmarried but his passing is mourned by six sisters, Mrs. (Norma) Sperling and Mable Whittemore, Withee, Mrs. E. (Alice) Hauke, Waukesha, Mrs. G. (Agnes) Braatz, Schofield, Laura Whittemore, Milwaukee, and Mrs. D. (Ruth) Blum, Fort Atkinson; and five brothers, Charles, George, Robert and John, Withee, and Art of Owen.