Obit: Sternitzky, Edward (1877 - 1968)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Sternitzky, Hillert, Bierwagen, Moh, Helm, Puschek, Steinbach, Ure, Garbisch, Roehrs

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 5/09/1968

Sternitzky, Edward (26 August 1877 - 30 April 1968)

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon from the Zion Lutheran Church in Granton for Edward Sternitzky, 90, a lifelong resident of the Town of Lynn, who died April 30, in Neillsville. The Rev. Roland Roehrs officiated. Burial was made in the parish cemetery.

Mr. Sternitzky was born August 26, 1877, in the Town of Lynn, where he had farmed. He was married June 11, 1903, in the Mapleworks Lutheran Church in Granton to the former Elizabeth Hillert. He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Granton.

Mr. Sternitzky is survived by his wife; four sons, Arnold, Herbert, Edwin and Erwin, all of the Granton area; two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Bierwagen of Grass Valley, Cal.; and Mrs. Dora Moh of Granton; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements were made by the Gilbertson Funeral Home in Granton.

Pallbearers were: Louis Helm, Henry Helm, Ernest Puschek, Walter Steinbach, Lucien Moh and Lloyd Ure.

Mrs. Roger Helm sang, “Rock of Ages” and “What a Friend we have in Jesus,” accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Leland Garbisch.