Obit: |
Hoeft, C.F. Ray (1917 - 2001) |
Contact: |
Stan |
Email: |
stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org |
Surnames: |
HOEFT MOENICKE WAGENKNECHT FLEISCHMANN BRAATZ KOHLBECK DRESCHER LEPORI DEISS |
----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark
County, Wis.) 06/27/2001
Hoeft, C.F. Ray (1917 - 2001)
C. F. Ray Hoeft, age 84, of Granton, Clark
County, died on Monday, June 25, 2001, at St. Joseph's Hospital,
Marshfield. Visitation will be from 9-11 a.m., Thursday, June 28,
at the Zion Lutheran Church, Granton. Funeral services will follow
at 11 a.m. The Rev. Dean Pingel will officiate. Interment will be
in the Windfall Cemetery, Granton. Pallbearers will be his
grandsons, Jim, Scott and Christopher Hanson, rod Fisher, Kory
Braatz, Curt, Wayne and Steve Fleischmann.
C.F. Ray Hoeft was born on June 17, 1917, in Saskatchewan, Canada,
to Frank A. and Ottelia E. (nee Moenicke) Hoeft. They moved to
Clark County in 1927, where he farmed with his family and attended
school. He is remembered as the Egg Man to many, as he gathered
eggs from area farms. Trucking was his business, which took up 32
years of his life. For six years, He was associated with Black
River Campers of Loyal, where he spent most of his time seeing the
country as he delivered campers to dealers, after they had been
manufactured. He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church, where he
served as president of the congregation and saw their new church
built. He served from 1946 to 1954 on the school board and was
president for eight years. A charter member of the Granton Rotary,
he belonged for 43 years, and spent 40 years on the Granton Fire
Department. He also belonged to the National Rifle Association, and
was a lifetime member and director of the Southern Clark County
Sportsmen Club. He married Esther Wagenknecht at Kiel, on Nov. 12,
1938. She died in 1990. He then married Dolores Fleischmann on Jan.
21, 1995, in Granton.
Survivors include his wife, Dolores two daughters, Marie (Jim)
Kohlbeck, Marshfield, and Nancy (Dale) Braatz, Tomahawk two
sisters, Frances Drescher and Eileen LePori, both of Loyal one
step-daughter, Darlene (Rich) Deiss, Omro two step-sons, Dennis
(Emily) Fleischman, Neillsville, and Don Fleischmann, Marshfield a
daughter-in-law, Veronica Hoeft, Granton four grandchildren seven
step-grandchildren five great-grandchildren and seven
step-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Esther a son, Bill his
parents one brother and one sister.
Gesche Funeral Home, Neillsville, assisted the family with
arrangements.
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