Obit: Heck, Laura (1885 - 1968)

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

Surnames: Heck, Neiderwerfer, Krause, Weber, Duell, Hargrave, Bahr, Loveland, Karspell, Smith, Lehmann, Lindloff

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 8/29/1968

Heck, Laura (3 May 1885 - 23 August 1968)

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Neillsville for Mrs. Eli (Laura) Heck, 82, of Rt. 1 Greenwood, who died Friday in Neillsville. The Rev. Norman W. Lindloff officiated. Burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Heck, the former Laura Neiderwerfer, was born October 21, 1885, in Jefferson City, where she also attended school. On May 3, 1906 she was married to Eli Heck in Watertown. They came to Clark County with horse and buggy, where Mr. Heck had work on Dells Dam. Later, they farmed in the Town of York for 30 years, and from there the family moved to the Town of Eaton where they had been farming for the last 30 years.

Mrs. Heck is survived by her husband, three sons, Harvey, Erwin and Floyd Heck, all of Greenwood; two brothers, Gust Neiderwerfer of Watertown and Louie Neiderwerfer of Oconomowoc; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

She was a member of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Neillsville.

Pallbearers were her grandsons: Harold, Terry F., Tracy, Benny, Harvey P. and Sheldon Heck. “Asleep in Jesus” and “Who Knows When Death May Overtake Me,” were sung by Kendall Smith, accompanied at the organ by Victor Lehmann.

People from out of town here for the service included: Mr. and Mrs. Gust Niederwerfer, Mrs. Esther Krause, Mrs. Sylvester Weber, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neiderwerfer, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Niederwerfer, and Mr. and Mrs. John Weber, all of Watertown; Mrs. Louie Heck of Fond du Lac; Mrs. Frank Duell of Loyal; Mrs. Dodge Hargrave of Merrill; Mrs. Edith Bahr of Jefferson; Mr. and Mrs. Treasurer Loveland, and Mrs. Beverly Karspell of Oconomowoc. Many from the Greenwood and Loyal areas also attended.