Obit: Schauer, Hubert (1915 – 1966)

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Surnames: Schauer, Hannie Boardman, Olson, Kanten, Graffunder, Gosse

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 19 May 1966

Schauer, Hubert (31 JAN 1915 – 13 MAY 1966)

Funeral services were held for Hubert R. Schauer on Monday, May 16 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at 1:30 p.m., with the Rev. R.W. Olson officiating. Mrs. William Boardman served as organist, and Mr. Tom Kanten of Dresser, Wis., as soloist. The pallbearers were nephews: Arvin Gosse, Arvin Schauer, Harold Schauer, Eugene Graffunder, Willard Schauer, and Donald Schauer. Burial was in Green Grove Cemetery, south of Curtiss (Clark Co., Wis.) Mr. Schauer died suddenly on May 13, 1966 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Chippewa Falls of internal hemorrhage. He was 51.

He was born Jan. 31, 1915 at Curtiss, Wis. On May 14, 1936 he was married to Sarah Hannie of Fairbury, Ill. He and his family moved to Thorp in 1939, where he was employed at the Schmidt Chevrolet Gaage and Central Refrigeration Co. for a number of years. In 1953 he and his wife purchased the motel which they still operate, and in 1958 he began his own refrigeration service, which he operated until the time of his death.

He leaves to mourn, his wife Sarah; two sons, James of Greendale, Wis., and David at home; four brothers, Ernest of Edgar, Oscar of Abbotsford, Erich of Neenah, Walter of Spencer, and one sister, Mrs. Ben Graffunder of Abbotsford.