Obit: Buker, Fredrick W. (1867 - 1951)

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Surnames: BUKER SCHWARZE HAIGH DECKER

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook, Marshfield News Herald / /1951

Fredrick W. Buker (1867 - 1951)

RITES SATURDAY FOR FRED BUKER.

BURIAL TO BE MADE IN GREENWOOD CEMETERY.

Greenwood--Funeral services for Fred W. Buker, 83, Greenwood, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church with a minister from Neillsville officiating. Burial will be made in the West Side cemetery, Clark County, WI.

Mr. Buker died at about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday at the Marden Convalescent Home where he had been the past year and a half.

The body will repose at the Schiller Funeral Home from late this afternoon until 1 p.m. Saturday. It will then be taken to the church to repose until the time of services.

Mr. Buker was born Nov. 20, 1867, in Sheboygan County. His marriage to the former Helen Schwarze, Dec. 20, 1893, took place at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schwarze, in the Town of Warner.

They had lived on their farm in Braun Settlement since their marriage. It is now operated by his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Haigh.

He is survived by two children, Mrs. Haigh and George Buker, Greenwood two grandchildren one great-grandchild and a brother and a sister: Edward Buker and Mrs. Amelia Decker, Greenwood.

His wife, two infant daughters, and one sister preceded him in death.