Obit: Schafer, Elizabeth (1885 - 1975)
Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: SCHAFER KLEIN BACKAUS
ELIZABETH SCHAFER SERVICES HELD AT GRANTON
Mrs. Elizabeth Schafer, 89, route 1,
Neillsville, Clark County died Saturday afternoon, June 15, 1975 at
Memorial Hospital in Neillsville.
Services for Mrs. Schafer were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the United
Methodist Church in Granton with the Rev. William Noble
officiating. Burial took place in the Lynn Cemetery.
Mrs. Schafer, the former Elizabeth Klein, was born Aug. 26, 1885,
in the town of Granton. She was married in 1907, in the town of
Grant, to John Schafer, and they lived at Chili and Lynn before
moving to a farm on route 1, Neillsville in 1955.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. John (Violet) Backaus, Wausau
a son, Gerald, Neillsville, and one grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, and by two sons and two
sisters.
****************************************************************
Obit: Schafer, Elizabeth #2
(1885 - 1975)
Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail:
dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Schafer, Klein, Backaus, Schmitz, Kuehn, Johnson, Riedel, Winter,
Grottke, Garbisch, Helm, Noble
----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 6/19/1975
Schafer, Elizabeth (26 August 1885 – 14 June 1975)
A native of the Town of Grant, Mrs. Elizabeth Schafer of Rt. 1 Neillsville, died
Saturday afternoon, June 14, in Neillsville at the age of 89. Funeral services
were held Tuesday from the Granton United Methodist Church with the Rev. William
Noble officiating. Burial was in the Lynn Cemetery. The Gilbertson Funeral Home,
Granton, was in charge of Arrangements.
The former Elizabeth Klein she was born August 26, 1885, in the Town of Grant.
Her marriage to John Schafer, who preceded her in death, took place in 1907 in
the Town of Grant. Mrs. Schafer lived at Chili and at Lynn until about 1955 when
she moved to a farm on Rt. 1 Neillsville.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. John (Violet) Backaus of Wausau; one son,
Gerald Schafer of Rt. 1 Neillsville; and one granddaughter.
Pallbearers were George Schmitz, Wesley Kuehn, Harvey Johnson, Alfred Riedel,
Arno Winter and Roger Grottke.
Mrs. Lee Garbisch was the organist and Mrs. Roger Helm, the soloist, for the
service.
© Every submission is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
Show your appreciation of this freely provided information by not copying it to any other site without our permission.
Become a Clark County History Buff
|
|
A site created and
maintained by the Clark County History Buffs
Webmasters: Leon Konieczny, Tanya Paschke, Janet & Stan Schwarze, James W. Sternitzky,
|