Obit: Schafer, Elizabeth (1885 - 1975)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: SCHAFER KLEIN BACKAUS

----Source: Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis. Public Library Scrapbook

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.