Obit: Schmocker, Clara ( ? - 1964)

Contact: Pat Braun
Email: pat@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Schmocker, Carlson

----Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark Co., Wis.) 12/24/1964

----Schmocker, Clara (? - 15 DEC 1964)

MRS. CHARLES SCHMOCKER FUNERAL SERVICES HELD

One of Owen’s pioneer residents, Mrs. Charles Schmocker who had made her home for the past 61 years passed away December 15 at the Havenet Nursing Home where she had been a resident for the past three years.

Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at 1:30 from St. Katherine’s Episcopal Church by Father Richard Hewetson.

Burial was made at Riverside Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers were Harold Kuehn, S. E. Grimes, Lyle Haas, Howard Devine, John Bacon and A. W. Gerhardt.

Born at Melrose, Wisconsin, Mrs. Schmocker, nee, Clara Carlson, came to Owen when 19 years of age. In 1904 she and the late Charles Schmocker were married in a ceremony performed here. He preceeded her in death passing away in 1959.

She is survived by a brother, Edwin, of Black River Falls, Wis., and a grandson, John Schmocker Jr., of Arcadia, Calif.