Obit: Pudleiner, John (1892 - 1934)

Contact: Linda Mertens
Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Pudleiner, Hofmann, Kalwitz, Guth, Meyer, Froebel, Habeck, Lapp, Foley, Haight, Snyder, Dangers, Paul

----Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

John Pudleiner (5 Nov 1892 - 23 Jul 1934)

Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon at two o'clock from the Peace Evangelical Church for John Pudleiner, 41, who was killed early Monday morning, July 23, near his farm 6½ miles northwest of Dorchester by a gun shot. The services were conducted by Rev. J.W. Kalwitz and interment was made in the Evergreen Cemetery in Medford with Ed Guth, Herman, Charles, and Harvey Meyer, Otto Froebel and Carl Habeck acting as pallbearers.

On Monday morning when Mr. Pudleiner failed to deliver milk at the cheese factory, Emil Hofmann drove up to his home but found the house locked and did not succeed in finding him. Later in the morning, Mr. Hofmann, accompanied by Albert Lapp, drove up there again and while looking around the premises, found Mr. Pudleiner lying about 8 rods back of the house with the rifle, a 250-3000 Savage, lying about ten feet away from the body. Dr. Foley was called at once and placed the time of death at between 4 and 5 a.m. The shot entered the body just above the heart and shrapnel was located in several places in the chest and back.

District Attorney Hugh G. Haight, Undersherrif Ernest Snyder, and Deputy Walter Dangers, of Neillsville, arrived here Monday and conducted an autopsy but as of yet the final decision is not known.

John Pudleiner was born November 5, 1892, in Fullerton, Pennsylvania, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John (Anna Peiger) Pudleiner. At the age of 2, he, with his parents, moved to Stetsonville where Mr. Pudleiner died 32 years ago. About 30 years ago they moved to their farm home 4½ miles northwest of Dorchester, where John lived until eight years ago when he moved to his own farm where he died.

He leaves his mother, Mrs. Robert Hofmann, Medford; one sister, Miss Louise Pudleiner, Milwaukee; two brothers, Emil of Dorchester, and Paul of Milwaukee; one half-sister, Miss Rose Hofmann, Milwaukee; two half-brothers, Ernest and Hugo Hofmann, Dorchester; one step-sister, Mrs. Edwin Paul, Lena, Wis.; and four step-brothers, Otto, Emil, Henry, and Albert Hofmann.

Always with a cheery smile and a genial personality, Mr. Pudleiner was well-liked and thought of in this community. He was an active member of the Farmer's Union and had a host of friends who join us in offering deepest sympathy to the mourning ones in their dark hours.