Surnames: GEMMEKE STARKS BOSTWICK

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 03/14/1984

Gemmeke, Kenneth (18 MAR 1929 - 23 FEB 1984)

Kenneth Gemmeke, 55, son of the late George and Velma (Bostwick) Gemmeke, was born March 18, 1929, in the Town of Eaton, Clark County, and died Feb. 23, 1984, in the hospital section of the Oak Forest Hospital and Nursing Home at Oak Forest, Ill., where he resided for the last years. He had been in ill health for the past several years.

Services were held at the Cooney's Funeral Home, Chicago, on Feb. 27, 1984, at 11 a.m. Rev. McCauley of the Addison Street Congregational Church officiated and burial was in the Irving Park Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.

Surviving is one sister, Mrs. Emory (Iola) Starks of Route 4, Thorp four nieces and one nephews seven great-nieces six great-nephews and one great-great niece and nephew.

He served in the Armed Forces from Sept. 1952 to Oct. 1954.

He had resided in Chicago since 1955.