Obit: Pudlas, Lydia (Patitz) (1892 - 1965)

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Surnames: Pudlas, Patitz, Kallio, Culbertson, Sheridan, Jensen, Marshall,

----Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Lydia Pudlas (20 Apr 1892 - 19 Oct 1965)

(By News-Herald Correspondent)

OWEN - Mrs. Frederic Arthur (Lydia Emma) Pudlas, 73, Curtiss, died Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1965, at the Havenet Nursing Home in Owen.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, at St. Paul's American Lutheran Church at Curtiss. The Rev. Arnold L. Woodring, pastor of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, will officiate, and burial will be made in the Pine Hill cemetery.

The body will repose at the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home in Owen until time of services.

The former Lydia Edna Patitz was born April 20, 1892, in the town of Mayville, (to John C. Patitz and his first wife Elisabeth Mueller Patitz), and was married Dec. 28, 1908, at Curtiss to Frederic Arthur Pudlas. The couple lived in the Curtiss area where they farmed until 1950 when they retired and moved to the village of Curtiss.

Mrs. Pudlas was a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church.

In addition to her husband, survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Tiovo (Grace F.) Kallio, Owen; four sisters, Mrs. Selma Culbertson and Mrs. Edna Sheridan, Appleton; Mrs. Lee (Anna Caroline) Jensen, Owen; and Mrs. Leona Marshall, Chicago; two brothers, Theodore Patitz, Glidden; and Herman Patitz, Brainerd, Minn.; 16 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

A son (Fred Arthur Jr.) and two daughters, (Esther H. and Dorothy Amelia), preceded her in death.