Obit: Schwantes, Loretta (1929 - 1977)

Surnames: Schwantes, Karoblis, Jozwiak, Hamilton, Linzmaier, Krause, Scherch, Vessley, McGuire

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Wood Co., Wis.) Thursday, 15 Sept. 1977

Schwantes, Loretta (20 Apr. 1929 - 14 Sept. 1977)

Wisconsin RAPIDS - Mrs. Gordon (Loretta) Schwantes, 48, Wisconsin Rapids, died at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield following open heart surgery. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church with the Rev. Andrew Karoblis, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 2-9 p.m. Friday and until 10 a.m. Saturday at the Taylor Funeral Home in Wisconsin Rapids. A prayer service will be at 8 p.m. Friday.

Mrs. Schwantes, nee Loretta Jozwiak, was born April 20, 1929 in Chicago. She married Gordon Schwantes Sept. 4, 1948 in Stratford. She worked for Preway Inc. in Wisconsin Rapids.

Survivors include her husband, three daughters, Mrs. Mary Hamilton and Dorothy Schwantes, both of Wisconsin Rapids, Mrs. Linda Linzmaier of Nekoosa, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Jozwiak; one brother, Edward, Stratford; four sisters, Mrs. Donald Krause of Marshfield, Mrs. Charles Scherch of Rockford, Ill., Mrs. Harold Vessley of Mosinee and Mrs. Dennis McGuire, Neenah-Menasha.

She was predeceased by one sister.