Obit: Koplitz, Henry #1 (1882 - 1962)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Koplitz, Chase, Tieman, Melcher, Mongin

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 10/18/1962

Koplitz, Henry (16 NOV 1882 - 15 OCT 1962)

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Friday at the Congregation Church here for Henry Lee Koplitz, 79, Owen (Clark Co., Wis.0, who died Monday at his home here after a lingering illness.  The Rev. Ralph Claybaugh will officiate and burial will be made in Riverside Cemetery in Withee.

Pallbearers will be George Behr, Harry Behr, Chris Backe, Chris Klay, Shurleigh Grimes, Swan Peterson.  Flower girls will be Mesdames Shurleigh Grimes, Swan Peterson, Chris Backe and Clara Behr.

Friends may call at Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home.

Mr. Koplitz was born Nov. 16, 1882 in Winneconne and received his education there.  His marriage to Lillian Chase in Neillsville took place in 1913.  The couple moved to a farm west of Withee where they lived until five years ago, when they moved to Owen.  Mr. Koplitz was a member of the Owen Congregational Church.

He is survived by his wife; three sons, Lester, Chicago; Harold, Curtiss, and Eugene, Greely, Colo.; a daughter, Mrs. Glen (Myrtle) Tieman, Owen; six grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Melcher, California, and Mrs. Francis Mongin, Omro.