Obit: Schuette, Walter #4 (1895 - 1962)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Schuette, Raeck, Zarnstorff, Olson, Zimmermann, Smith, Uhlig, Kuenker, Witt

----- Source: Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark Co., Wis.) 08/02/1962

----- Schuette, Walter #4 (18 MAY 1895 - 30 JUL 1962)

Walter Schuette, 67, route 1, Unity (Clark Co., Wis.), died Monday at 11:15 a.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, where he had been taken Friday after suffering a heart attack while fishing. He suffered a second attack Monday morning.

Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in South Green Grove. Rev. Jerome Wohlfiel will officiate and burial will be in the parish cemetery. The body is lying in state at the Myre Funeral Home.

Mr. Schuette was born May 18, 1895 at Montpelier in Kewaunee County, and at the age of fourteen came with his parents to a farm in the town of Beaver. He was married to the former Lillie Raeck on Dec. 22, 1920 at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in South Green Grove. He had lived on the home farm all of his life. He was a member of St. Luke's Church and a director of Hull Insurance Company for the past four years.

Survivors besides his wife include five daughters, Mrs. Carl (Elpha) Zarnstorff, Owen, Mrs. Wayne (Irene) Olson, Curtiss, Mrs. Franklin (Blanche) Zimmermann and Mrs. Donald (Dorothy) Smith, Loyal, Mrs. Gerald (Constance) Uhlig, Sturtevant; two sons, Delber and Eldred of Unity; twenty grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Ida Kuenker, Manitowoc and Mrs. Arnold (Olivia) Witt, Gilman; two brothers, Lester Schuette, Unity and Albert Schuette, Greenwood. One son and two brother preceded him in death.