Obit: Rinehart, Ella J. #2 (1921 - 2008)

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Surnames: Rinehart, Fonken, Pipgras, Cavanaugh

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Thursday, 4 Dec. 2008

Rinehart, Ella J. (12 Jan. 1921 - 1 Dec. 2008)

MEDFORD -- Ella J. Rinehart, 87, formerly of the town of Goodrich, died Monday, Dec. 1, 2008, at Heartland Health Care Center in Waukesha.

Services will be at noon Monday, Dec. 8, at the Hemer Funeral Home in Medford. Interment will be in Medford Evergreen II Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time Monday at the funeral home.

She was born Jan. 12, 1921, in Medford to John and Annie Mae (Fonken) Pipgras. She married Harold R. Rinehart on Oct. 29, 1943, and he preceded her in death May 20, 1976.

She is survived by her daughters, Orla Rinehart, Waukesha, and Shirley (Jerry) Cavanaugh, Kentucky; nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; and her brother, Albert Pipgras, Washington.