Obit: Scheel, Elizabeth #2 (1892 -1980)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Scheel, Thomas, Colby, Franton, Prior, Mandel, Brecker, Boyette, Kuehmichel

----Source: From the scrapbook of a descendant of the Scheel family 4/1980

Scheel, Elizabeth (19 October 1892 - 5 April 1980)

Greenwood - Mrs. Elizabeth Scheel, 97, who with her late husband Ralph farmed in the Town of Beaver 54 years, died Saturday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Dennis (Naomi) Colby.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Rinka Funeral Home, Loyal. Brian Kuehmichel of Marshfield will officiate. Burial is to be at Loyal Cemetery. Friends may call after 3 p.m. today at the funeral home.

The former Elizabeth Thomas was born Oct. 19, 1892, at Sherry and was married there June 23, 1916 to Ralph R. Scheel. They observed their golden wedding anniversary in 1966. Mrs. Scheel had been living with her daughter since his death April 18, 1970.

Besides Mrs. Colby, Mrs. Scheel is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. Lester (Norma) Franton, Lombard, Ill., and Mrs. Art (Joyce) Prior, Mundelein, Ill.; six sons, Ralph Jr., Neillsville; Arthur, Mukwonago, and Walter, Murray, Gary and Wayne, all of Waukesha; 65 grandchildren; and 61 great-grandchildren. Also surviving are three brothers, Charles, Herbert and Fred, all of Wisconsin Rapids; and three sisters, Mrs. Alfred (Lena) Mandel of Marshfield, Mrs. Hattie Brecker of Abbotsford, and Miss Elfrieda Thomas of Wisconsin Rapids.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Elizabeth Boyette in May 1960, and seven brothers.

(Contributed by Carol Mitte, Neillsville)