Obit: LaLonde, Faustin M. (1894 – 1964)

Contact:  Pat Braun

Email:  braunp@tds.net

Surnames:  LaLonde, Burhop, Mathewson, Segerstom, Grimes, Holverson, Wollum, Haire, Wagner, Grow

----Source:  Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark Co., Wis.) 5/7/1964

LaLonde, Faustin M. (1894 – 3 MAY 1964)

FINAL RITES HELD FOR FAUSTIN LALONDE WED.

Masonic services for Faustin M. LaLonde were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home with Louis Burhop, Worshipful  Master of the Owen Masonic Chapter officiating.  Burial was made at Mt. Hope Cemetery at Ashland.

Kenneth Mathewson, Roy Segerstom, Shurleigh Grimes, Carl Holverson, Henry M. Wollum and Rolland Haire acted as pallbearers.

Faustin M. LaLonde was born February 15, 1894, in Michigan and passed away Sunday, May 3, at St. Joseph’s Hospital at Marshfield where he had been confined for several weeks.  He was 70 years of age.

In a ceremony performed at Duluth, Minnesota, on March 17, 1916, he was united in marriage to the former Anna Wagner.  They resided at Gurney, Wis., until 1927, working out of this terminal as a railroad engineer.  In 1927 they moved to Rib Lake where he continued to serve as an engineer on the railroad during the prosperous lumbering era of that community.  In 1944 the family moved to Owen where he was employed as a mechanic in the trucking terminal of Western Condensing until his retirement in 1960.

During the 20 years he had been a resident of Owen he had been a most active and faithful member of the Masonic lodge.

Mourning his passing are his wife, and a daughter, Mrs. Norman (Maxine) grow, Appleton, two grandchildren, and one great grandchild.