Obit: Weber, Frank X. (1893 - 1960)

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Surnames: Weber, Dorrenbach, Yost, Gillespie, Mertens, Jones

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 06/09/1960

Weber, Frank X. (1893 - 31 MAY 1960)

Frank X. Weber, 66, secretary of the Wolff, Kubly and Hirsig Department Store in Madison for 19 years, died Tuesday of a heart attack after an illness of six weeks.

Mr. Weber, who was born in 1893 in Thorp (Clark Co., Wis.), was graduated from Thorp High School and had attended St. Joseph’s Technical School in Techni, Ill.

He joined the Wolff, Kubly and Hirsig firm in Madison, Wis. after World War I as an employee in the toy department.  He was credited with building this department from a seasonal one to one of the largest year-round toy departments in the city.  In 1941 Mrs. Weber was elected a director and secretary of the company.

Before coming to the Madison firm he served overseas for 18 months in the armed services and worked for the Northwester and Owen Lumber Co. in Stanley.

Mr. Weber was a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church and its Holy Name Society, and previously was a member, for 30 years, of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, where eh served on the building committee.

He also was a member of the Madison Club and the Kiwanis Club, and served for many eyars as a director of Anchor Savings and Loan Assn.

For many years, Mr. Weber cooperated with the Wis. State Journal in selecting toys for the State Journal’s annual Empty Stocking Club.

Among his survivors is his wife, the former Helen Dorrenbach of St. Louis, whom he married in 1920.

Other survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Robert Gillespie, Appleton and Mrs. Frank R. Yost, Madison; his mother, Mrs. Katherine Weber, Thorp; two half-sisters, Olga Mertens, Thorp and Mrs. Frank Jones, Altoona, Wis., and six grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 2 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Madison.  The Rev. Michael Mertens, Viroqua, a nephew of Mr. Weber, officiated.  Burial was in Resurrection Cemetery.