Obit: Tiedemann, Laura (1878 - 1961)

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Surnames: Tiedemann, Mead, Mahler, Garvue

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 05/25/1961

Tiedemann, Laura (15 APR 1878 - 17 MAY 1961)

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Cecil Ward at 11:00 o’clock Saturday morning at the Thorp Funeral Home here for Mrs. Laura Tiedemann, 83, who passed away Wednesday, May 17, 1961 of pneumonia at 1361 No. 60th St., Milwaukee, where she had been residing with her daughter, Mrs. James Mahler.

Laura Mead was born in the Town of Longwood, Clark County, on April 15, 1878, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mead.

She was united in marriage to Herman C. Tiedemann at Abbotsford in 1894, at which time she came to live in Thorp. After the death of her husband in June 1940, she went to Milwaukee to be near her daughter, and resided there until death.

She is survived by one daughter Esther, Mrs. James Mahler of Wauwatosa, and one son, Kenneth Tiedemann of Cable, Wis., four grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. One daughter, Vivian Garvue, preceded her in death.

She was laid to rest beside her husband in the east Thorp Cemetery. Pallbearers were Wm. J. Klouda, B.W. Hubbard, Ed Bogumill, Russell Mead, Wm. S. Wagner and Kenneth Lindquist.

Among relatives and friends here to attend the funeral were Kenneth Tiedemann and Wm. Noonan of Cable, Wis., Mr. and Mrs. James Mahler of Wauwatosa, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bacon and son Bill of Monroe, Wis., Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garvue of Kalamazoo, Mich., Mary Kettner of Rhinelander, Wis., Jack Garvue of Minneapolis, and Margaret Tiedemann and Mrs. Patty Koerner of Faribault, Minn.