Obit: Ketchpaw, Claire (1899 - 1990)

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Surnames: KETCHPAW DARTON ROSSMAN NIEHOFF

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 05/02/1990
 

Ketchpaw, Claire (1899 - 1990)

Claire Ketchpaw, 90, Bloomer, died Saturday, April 28, 1990 at Bloomer Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 2, 1990, at First Congregational Church, Bloomer, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Rev. Jeanne Lischer will officiate. Graveside services will follow at 2:00 p.m. at Loyal Cemetery, Loyal, Clark County.

Claire (Darton) Ketchpaw was born Nov. 24, 1899, in Clark County to Arthur and Olga (nee Rossman) Darton. She graduated from Madison Business College and taught school in the Loyal area for a number of year. She married Dr. M. B. Ketchpaw in Loyal on Nov. 11, 1944. She was employed at the Clark County Heath Care Center Owen and later worked as a bookkeeper for Kostner and Kostner Attorneys and the Abrahamson Insurance and Auto Agency in Bloomer. She was a member of the Congregational Church, a past worthy matron of the Eastern Star and the Bloomer Woman's Club.

Survivors include four grandchildren five great-grandchildren, two nieces one step-daughter three step-grandchildren and four great-step-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her parents, husband Marcel one son, Roger Niehoff and brother Hugh Darton.