Obit: Schwarze, Ernest (1909 - 1977)

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Surnames: SCHWARZE RINDFEISCH HIRSBRUNNER HALVORSON ANDERSON

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 04/27/1977

ERNEST SCHWARZE

Funeral services were held Monday, April 11, at 2:30 p.m. in Shriner-Naushwander Funeral Home for Ernest P. Schwarze, 67, of 915 16th St., who passed away Friday, April 8, 1977, at 9:05 a.m. in St. Claire Hospital following a lingering illness. He had been hospitalized the day before.

Rev. W. C. Koehler of St. John's Church officiated and burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Ernest Schwarze was born in Greenwood, Clark County on Oct. 17, 1909, and was the son of William and Alma Rindfleisch Schwarze. He graduated from Greenwood High School in 1927 and from Coyne Electric School in Chicago in 1939.

He was married to Alice C. Hirsbrunner on Sept. 24, 1939, at St. John's Church.

He was employed as a radio and TV serviceman for Montgomery Wards and worked for 21 years for Lanz Hardware in radio and TV service, retiring in 1973.

He was a member of St. John's United Church of Christ and of the Eagles Aerie. He also served as its president in 1958. An avid bowler, he also enjoyed fishing and woodworking.

Surviving him are his wife, Alice two sons, Gary of Indiana and Richard of California five brothers, Arnold and Harold of La Crosse, William of Oconomowoc, Paul and Donald of Clearlake Highlands, Calif. three sisters, Gertrude of Los Angeles, Mrs. Lloyd (Celia) Halvorson of Minneapolis and Mrs. Francis (Arline) Anderson of Loyal.

He was preceded in death by his mother in 1933 and his father in 1950.