Obit: Mantik, Michael (1886 - 1944)
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Surnames: Mantik, Ulrich, Stewart, Blum, Heldt, Abitz, Paulson, Ostertag, Gamecke

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) Thursday, 14 Sept. 1944

Mantik, Michael (9 July 1886 - 13 Sept. 1944)

Michael Mantik, prominent farmer in the town of Johnson, died at the Marathon County Hospital, Wednesday noon. He had been ill for the past six years with hardening of the arteries and was a patient at the hospital for the past two and a half years.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1:30 from the farm home and at 2:00 o’clock from the Gospel Tabernacle church at Milan with the Rev. H. A. Ulrich of Milwaukee, officiating. Internment will be made in the Evangelical cemetery at Milan.

The pallbearers will be Emil Stewart, of Gleason; Henry R? and John Blum, Owen; John R?, Edgar; and Walter Gamecke, Sr. and Edward Heldt, Athens.

Michael Mantik was born July 9, 1886, at Tutzin, Volgania, White Russia. He came to America in 1906 and lived at Athens until 1916 when he moved to the farm in the town of Johnson where he lived until his illness forced him to retire.

He was united in marriage on June 15, 1910, to Miss Elsie Abitz, at Medford. Five sons and two daughters were born to them, all of whom are living except one son who died in infancy.

Mr. Mantik was active in both church and Sunday school work of the Milan Gospel Tabernacle, which church he helped build.

Mr. Mantik is survived by six children: Edwin, Milan; Fred, Rueben and Enos, town of Johnson; and Mrs. Herbert (Esther) Paulson, now en-route to Calif., and Mrs. Edward (Evelyn) Ostertag, of St. Paul, Minn. Surviving also are 11 grand children and one brother in Europe. Mrs. Mantik preceded him in death three years ago.