Obit: Sandefur, Karen Sue (1941 - 1973)

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

Surnames: Sandefur, Moeller, Reindel, Mills, Litzer

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co, WI) 2/01/1973

Sandefur, Karen Sue (27 March 1941 - 29 January 1973)

Funeral services are to be held Friday at 1:30 p.m. from the Georgas Funeral Home for a Town of York native, Mrs. William (Karen Sue Moeller) Sandefur, 31, of Chicago, Ill., who died in Wesley Memorial Hospital there January 29. The Rev. Daniel Litzer of Calvary Lutheran Church will officiate and burial will be made in the Neillsville City Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. this (Thursday) morning until the time of service.

Mrs. Sandefur, the daughter of Mrs. Glenn (Helene Reindel) Mills of Loyal and the late Jake H. Moeller, was born March 27, 1941, in the Town of York. She attended the happy Hollow elementary school and graduated with the class of 1960. She was employed at the Neillsville Theater before moving to Chicago in 1960, where she worked at the East End restaurant until July of 1971. Her marriage to William S. Sandefur took place March 4, 1967, in Chicago.

Mrs. Sandefur received her first treatment on an artificial kidney machine on August 18, 1971, and since that time had undergone 215 dialysis treatments. She was a member of Lake View Lutheran Church in Chicago and of the national Kidney foundation.

Survivors, in addition to her husband and her mother, include two brothers.