Obit: Eikamp, George (1872 - 1968)

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Surnames: Eikamp, Hoch, Ruedy, Sabin

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 2/08/1968

Eikamp, George (15 February 1872 - 5 February 1968)

George Eikamp, 95, of Cochrane and Neillsville, died here Monday. Funeral services were held Wednesday from the Pentecostal Assembly Church in Cochrane. The Rev. James Sabin officiated. Burial was made in the Buffalo City Cemetery. The body was taken to the Georgas Funeral Home in Neillsville and from there to the Colby Funeral Home in Cochrane.

Mr. Eikamp was born February 15, 1872, in Buffalo County, where he attended school. He operated a farm and lived in Cochrane from 1915 until he came to Neillsville in 1963. He was a resident of Memorial Home at the time of his death.

His marriage to Josephine Hoch took place in Alma. Mrs. Eikamp died in 1963.

He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Earl (Bertha) Ruedy of Oostburg; a son, Theodore Eikamp of Cochrane; a brother, Reinhardt, of Cochrane; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.