Obit: Schweke, Minnie #3 (1886 - 1963)

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Surnames: Schweke, Zettl, Prehn, Oelrich, Voelker, Cramer, Luepke

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 04/25/1963

Schweke, Minnie #3 (9 FEB 1886 - 16 APR 1963)

Mrs. William Schweke, 77, Spencer, died at the Leahy Nursing Home at Abbotsford, April 16, 1963. She had been a resident there since the previous Friday.

Funeral services were held Friday at 2 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Spencer, and burial was made in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery in the town of Brighton (Marathon Co.).

Mrs. Schweke is survived by her husband; two daughters, Mrs. John (Lenora) Zettl, Milwaukee, and Mrs. Donald (Estella) Prehn, Spencer; three sons, Alvin, Ladysmith; Rudolph, Spencer; and Clifford, Marshfield; nine grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Alvina Oelrich, Mrs. John Voelker, and Mrs. Ella Cramer, all of Spencer; and a brother, Fred Luepke, Abbotsford.

A son, three sisters, and four brothers preceded her in death.