----Source: Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis., Library Scrapbook

OBITUARY OF MRS. WM. REINEKING.

Mrs. Wm. Reineking was born October 30, 1856 in Lippe-Detmold, Germany, the daughter of Simon and Marie Dohmeier. She was baptized on November 9, 1856. In the year 1857 at the age of 6 months, she came to America with her parents, and they made their home in the Town of Herman, Sheboygan county, Wisconsin. Here she attended the public school and also the religious school of the Reformed church.

She was married to Wm. Reineking on May 6, 1881. Ten children were born to this union. Her husband preceeded her in death in the year 1925, and one child in infancy.

In 1881, Mr. and Mrs. Reineking came to Clark county and settled on a farm in the Town of Mead. A few years after the death of her husband, Mrs. Reineking sold the farm and for a number of years made her home with her sons-in-law and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Steiger, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Becker and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Miller. In 1932 she took repossession of her farm and for the last four years has made her home there with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Reineking.

She has always been a faithful member of West Side congregation: a charter member of the Ladies Aid Society. She was a kind and loving mother, devoted to her home.

Mrs. Reineking's health was failing for some time and for the last few years was confined to her bed. She was called to her final reward on Wednesday evening, September 22, 1937, reaching an age of 80 years, 10 months and 22 days.
Those who remain to mourn her death are two sons and six daughters: Otto of Greenwood and Arthur of Owen (Lydia) Mrs. Albert Miller, (Meta) Mrs. John Vollrath, (Ella) Mrs. Ed Steiger, all of Greenwood: (Bertha) Mrs. Arthur Sebastian, (Hilda) Mrs. Wm. Becker and Selma, of Milwaukee and (Emilia) Mrs. Alfred Decker of Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Besides these she leaves 25 grandchildren, 5 great grand children, one sister, Mrs. Caroline Hanke, Plymouth, Wis. and one brother Simon Dohmieir of Sheboygan Falls, Wis.

Funeral services were held at the West Side Reformed church Monday afternoon, Rev. P. H. Franzmeier officiating. Interment was in the West Side cemetery.

The pallbearers were Wm. Toburen, Albert Liebzeit, Wm. Miller, Theo. Humke, Ed Schwarze, Ferdinand Decker.

The flower girls were Elvera and Bernelda Reineking, Verona, Alice and Bernice Vollrath, Beatrice Steiger, Arlene Sebastian and Delores Toburen.

Those from out of town who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Otto Reineking, Mrs. Fred Reineking, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wernecke, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hanke and Calvin Hanke, all of Plymouth Mr. and Mrs. Martin Rineking and daughters LaVern and Marllyn, Mrs. Minnie Helming, Mrs. Albert Helming, Mr. and Mrs. Theo Uphoff, all of Sheboygan Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Branstedt, daughter, Irma and son Harold, all of Owen Miss Selma Reineking, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Becker, Mrs. Arthur Sebastian, daughter Arlene and son Milton, all of Milwaukee.