Obit: Scheibe, Charles (1867 - 1960)

Contact: Linda Mertens
Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Scheibe, Kollath, Rankl, Lesica, Beisner, Schramm

----Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Charles Scheibe (22 Feb 1867 - 25 Jul 1960)

DORCHESTER - Charles "Carl" Scheibe, 93, died of complications last evening at Milwaukee General Hospital in Milwaukee. He had been a resident at a nursing home in Milwaukee for the past eight years.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at Peace Evangelical and Reformed Church with the Rev. Fred Kollath officiating. Burial will be made in the parish cemetery.

Friends may call at the Polnaszek Funeral Home in Abbotsford beginning Wednesday noon.

Mr. Sheibe was born Feb. 22, 1867, in the town of Falls, Sheboygan County. During his youth, he worked in the iron mines in Michigan and later came to Milwaukee where he operated a grocery store. After his marriage to Mrs. Lena Rankl in Milwaukee in 1914, he began operating a farm in the town of Holton. His wife died in 1930. His stepson took over operation of the farm and Mr. Scheibe made his residence in the area of Dorchester and Abbotsford.

He is survived by two daughters: Mrs. George (Caroline) Lesica and Mrs. Gorman (Marian) Beisner, both of Milwaukee; a stepson, Clarence Rankl, rural Abbotsford; and a sister, Mrs. Ida Schramm, Milwaukee; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Four brothers and two sisters preceded him in death.