Obit: Loos, Elizabeth #1 (1882 – 1962)

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Surnames: Loos, Schnell, Becker, Boulanger, Menne, Harkins, Utecht

----- Source: Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark Co., Wis.) 04/19/1962

----- Loos, Elizabeth (6 DEC 1882 – 17 APR 1962)

Mrs. Elizabeth Loos, 79, died Tuesday morning at Neillsville Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient for the past week. Funeral services will be held Holy Thursday at 11 a.m. at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, with Rev. Norbert E. King officiating. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. A general rosary will be said Wednesday evening at 9 p.m. at the Myre Funeral Home where the body is lying in state.

The former Elizabeth Schnell was born Dec. 6, 1882 in Kiel and received her education there. Following her marriage to Conrad Loos in 1904 at Kiel the couple moved to a farm at Braun Settlement, west of Greenwood. They lived there until 1920 when they moved to a farm in the town of Loyal, where she has since resided. Since her illness last November she has been a patient at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, and at Memorial Hospital Nursing Home, Neillsville. She was a member of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church and its Altar Society. Mr. Loos died June 25, 1939.

Surviving are seven sons, Alex, Gilbert, John and Roy, Loyal, Rueben and Jerome, Chicago, Clemens, Marshfield; two daughters, Mrs. Arthur (Viola) Becker, Loyal and Mrs. C.F. (Dorothy) Boulanger, Evanston, Ill.; 30 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild; one brother, Andrew Schnell, Kiel; and three sisters, Mrs. Rose Menne, Kiel, Mrs. Justine (Viola) Harkins, Elkhart, and Mrs. Fran (Emma) Utecht, Oconomowoc.

She was preceded in death by two sons, who died in infancy, a son Arthur who died April 15, 1959, three sisters and one brother.