Obit: Schwantes, Margaret Marie (1917 – 1993)

Contact: ken@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Schwantes, Nack, Nordholtz, Semler, Rickert, Cook, Verkin

----Source: Marshfield News Herald,  Monday, 24 May 1993 P 4B, C. 3

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

Margaret Marie Schwantes, 75, a former Sitka resident, died May 21 at Heritage Nursing Home in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin

She had been at the home for more than a month.

Services will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Huehns Funeral Home in Sheboygan Falls, with the Rev. Richard Nack, assistant pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Sheboygan Falls Cemetery.

Mrs. Schwantes was born Aug. 1, 1917, in West Salem, Wisconsin, to Max and Emma Nordholtz Semler.

She lived in Spencer, Wisconsin, where she farmed for 18 years and then moved to Sitka. She lived here for 16 years before moving to Sheboygan Falls in 1979.

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

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard Schwantes, one daughter, one son, one granddaughter and two sisters.

Survivors include two daughters, Judy Rickert of Heppner, Ore., and Daisy Cook of Sheboygan Falls; sons, Charles (Chuck) Schwantes of Sitka, David Schwantes of Anchorage, Mike Schwantes of Hewitt, Minn., Tom Schwantes of Kodiak; nine grandchildren; one step-grandson; six great-grandchildren; one step-great-grandson; one sister, Leona Verkin of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and one brother, Lawrence Semler of West Salem.

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

Biographical Information

Social Security Record

Name: Margaret M Schwantes
Birth Date: 1 August 1917
Social Security Number: 397-05-3316
Place of Issuance: Wisconsin
Last Residence: Sheboygan, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Zip Code of Last Residence: 53081
Death Date : 21 May 1993
Estimated Age at Death: 76

1920 Federal Census, La Crosse, Wisconsin

Name: Margaret S? Semlar 
Age: 2
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Gender: Female
Race: White
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Wisconsin
Mother's Birthplace: Wisconsin
Film Number: 1821992
Image Number: 00968
Sheet Number: 6
Household Members
Parent Max M Semlar M 33y
Parent Emma B Semlar F 23y
Margaret S Semlar F 2y3m
Lillian M Semlar F 10m
Fritz Nordholz M 62y