Obit: Mitschka, Evelyn (1918 - 1977)

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Surnames: MITSCHKA STEIGER NIELSON SYTH

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 08/17/1977

MRS. CARL MITSCHKA

Mrs. Carl Mitschka, 59, Milwaukee, the former Evelyn Steiger of the Greenwood, Clark County area, passed away Friday, Aug. 12, 1977 at West Allis Memorial Hospital, where she had been a patient since April. Death followed a lingering illness.

Services for Mrs. Carl Mitschka were held at the United Church of Christ, Milwaukee on Monday, Aug. 15.

The former Evelyn Steiger was born in the Greenwood area and received her education there, graduating from Greenwood High School. She attended the Neillsville Normal School and taught at the Bruce Mound School and then at the Prosperity School in the Town of Eaton before her marriage to Carl Mitschka of Milwaukee.

Surviving her are her husband one son, Randall of Milwaukee two sisters, Mrs. Gordon (Marian) Nielson of Waupaca and Mrs. Dale (Beatrice) Syth of Eau Claire two brothers, Kenneth Steiger of Greenwood and Ervin Steiger of Neillsville.