Obit: Leonhard, Gustine (1893 - 1949?)
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Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Gustine Leonhard (28 Aug 1893 - 1948?)

Mrs. Fred Leonhard, 55, 509 S. Vine Street, (Marshfield, WI) died of a heart attack at her home at 11:55 p.m. last night. She had just returned from a card party at Sacred Heart School.

A Requiem High Mass will be read Thursday morning at 8 o’clock at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, the Rev. Edmund Cramer officiating. Interment will take place at Hillside cemetery.

The body will lie in state at the Rembs Funeral Home beginning Tuesday afternoon. Combined general rosary and a rosary service by the Holy Name Society will be held at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening.

Mrs. Leonard, the former Gustine Krainak, was born Aug. 28, 1893, in Dorchester. She attended the Dorchester schools and was married to Fred Leonhard on Oct. 5, 1927, at the St. Louis Catholic Church, Dorchester. They lived in Dorchester until a year ago last July, when they moved to Marshfield.

She is survived by her husband, a son, Paul, and a daughter, Marcella, both at home; one brother, Herman, Dorchester, and six sisters, Anna Krainak, Dorchester, Mrs. Mary Stowers, Seattle, Wash., Mrs. Michael Kacsir, Ironwood, Mich., Mrs. John Lindberg, Evanston, Ill., Mrs. Earl Meyers, Racine, and Mrs. Peter Wanke, Athens.

One sister and two brothers preceded her in death.