Obit: Bauernfeind, Joseph Sr. (1881 - 1959)

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Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Joseph Bauernfeind, Sr (19 March 1881 - 21 September 1959)

Joseph Bauernfeind, Sr., 78, resident of this village for 52 years, died at his home here Monday, Sept. 21, at 4:20 p. m. He had been in ill health for about a year and a half, and his death was attributed to cancer.

Funeral rites were held from St. Louis Catholic Church here at 10:30 a.m. today (Thursday), The Rev. Father Gerald F. Schuh, pastor, officiated at the Requiem High Mass, and the Children's Choir sang.

Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery at Medford under the direction of Fuchsgruber Funeral Service, which had charge of arrangements. Pallbearers were Joe Dessl, Frank Hollman, August Sauter, Frank Schopper, F. V. Hiebsch, Richard Schreiber, William Sedlack, and Frank Stoiber.

Joseph J. Bauernfeind was born in Pullersreuith, Germany, March 19, 1881. He came to this country in 1903, locating at Medford where he and Helen Eichenger were married May 14, 1907. Following their marriage, they moved here (Dorchester, WI) where he engaged in blacksmithing, a business in which he was active until his last illness. The family home on Highway A was bought in 1923, and he had resided there since. He was a member of St. Louis church and of the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths.

Mrs. Bauernfeind died Nov. 27, 1952. Also preceding him in death were three children, Aquilina, Bernard, and Arthur.

Six sons and two daughters survive: M/Sgt. George of Castroville, Calif.; Alphonse of Elmhurst, Ill.; Irene (Mrs. R. C. Bon Seigneur) of Evansville, Ind.; Joseph, Jr., Marshfield; William Oakland, Calif.; Katherine, Greenville, S. C., James, Pekin, Ill.; and Louis of Wausau. Fourteen grandchildren also survive.

All the children except George and William came for the funeral. They had visited their father shortly before his death, Katherine came from South Carolina about a month ago to care for her ailing father.