Obit: Wiersig, Mrs. Edmund (1874? - 1963)

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Surnames: Wiersig, Rashka, Wellman, Runzheimer, Giebler, Viercks

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 03/14/1963

Wiersig, Mrs. Edmund (1874? - 6 MAR 1963)

Mrs. Edmund Wiersig, 88, of Elkhart Lake died at the Rocky Knoll Sanitarium at Plymouth on March 6, 1963.

The Ed Wiersig family were former Colby residents from 1907 and lived in the town of Hull for 17 years on the present Clarence Koenig farm, two miles east of Colby on Highway N.

The following relatives attended the funeral at Plymouth last Saturday: Rudolph Wiersig, Herbert Wiersig, Norman Wiersig, Reinhardt Wiersig, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wiersig, Mrs. John Rashka, Mr. Elmer Wellman and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Runzheimer and Susan.

The relatives also visited Ed Wiersig at the Rocky Knoll Sanitarium, where he is recuperating from recent surgery.

Survivors of Mrs. Wiersig, in addition to her husband, are: Mrs. Edward Giebler (Edna) of Elkhart Lake, Mrs. Karl Viercks (Claire) and Paul Wiersig, both of Milwaukee, and George Wiersig of California.