Obit: Schwantes, Margaret (1917 - 1993)

Surnames: Schwantes, Hasse, Nack, Nordholz, Rickert, Cook, Verkin, Semler

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Wood Co., Wis.) Monday, 24 May 1993

Schwantes, Margaret (1 Aug. 1917 - 21 May 1993)

SHEBOYGAN FALLS - Margaret M. Schwantes, 75, Sheboygan Falls, formerly of Spencer, died Friday at Heritage Nursing, Sheboygan Falls, where she had been a resident for more than a month.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Huehns Funeral Home, Sheboygan Falls, with the Revs. Donald Hasse and Richard Nack officiating.

Burial will be in Sheboygan Falls Cemetery. Visitation will be at 4 p.m. today and again Tuesday until service time at the funeral home. She was born Aug. 1, 1917, in West Salem, to the late Max and Emma Nordholz Semler. She was married to Leonard Schwantes, and he predeceased her.

She resided in Spencer, where she farmed, for 18 years. She then moved to Sitka, Alaska, and resided there for 16 years. She moved to Sheboygan Falls in 1979.

She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Sheboygan Falls. She was a former member of a Spencer sewing club and Sheboygan Falls Homemakers.

Survivors include two daughters, Judy Rickert of Heppner, Ore., and Mrs. Norman (Daisy) Cook of Sheboygan Falls; four sons, Charles of Sitka, David of Anchorage, Alaska, Mike of Hewitt, Minn., and Tom of Kodiak, Alaska; one sister, Mrs. Erwin (Leona) Verkin of La Crosse; one brother, Lawrence Semler of West Salem; nine grandchildren; one step-grandson; six great-grandchildren; and one step-great-grandson. She was also predeceased by one daughter, one son, two sisters and one granddaughter.

A memorial fund will be made in her name for the church and Lutheran Counseling and Family Services.