Obit:
Contact: Lisa Winner Haas
Email:
lwinner2@verizon.net
Surnames:
----Source: Lisa Haas Scrapbook
Funeral services were conducted
at St. Bernard's Catholic Church, Thorp on Monday, September 19, for Frank
Smitke, 85, who passed away at Memorial Hospital, Neillsville of a heart
ailment. Rev. Brockman officiated at the ten a.m. service and burial was made in
the parish cemetery.
Pallbearers were
6 grandsons: Bruce Bryan, Eugene Bryan, Arlyn Bryan, Kenneth Dodmead, Frank
Matousek, and Larry Matousek.
Mr. Smitke, a retired farmer, was
born September 15, 1881 at Abbottsford, Wis. He was united in marriage to Anna
Haas at St. Bernard's Catholic Church, Thorp on August 4, 1908. Having lived all
his life around Thorp the past 50 years, he resided on a farm 1 mile North of
Thorp.
Surviving are: his wife Anna; one
son, Frederick Smitke of Medford; three daughters, Mrs. John (Cecelia) Bryan,
Mrs. Elmer (Regina) Dodmead and Mrs. Frank (Lucilia) Matousek of Neillsville;
two sisters, Miss Catherine Smitke and Mrs. Harry (Grace) Perkins both of
Duluth, Minn.; 14 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.
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