Obit: Reynolds, Mary (1894 – 1967)

Contact: Dinah Reinke
Email: dinah@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Reynolds, Stelzel, Zettler, Wetterau, Rajewski, Wanke

------ Source: Tribune-Phonograph (Abbotsford and Colby, Clark Co., Wis.) 01/12/1967

------ Reynolds, Mary (24 AUG 1894 – 08 JAN 1967)

Funeral services for Mrs. Fred (Mary) Reynolds, 72, Dorchester, were held Wednesday morning at St. Louis Catholic church, Dorchester. The Rev. Gerald Schuh officiated, and burial was in the Dorchester Memorial cemetery.

Mrs. Reynolds died early Sunday morning, January 8, at her home. She had been ill for the past two years.

Mrs. Reynolds was born Mary Stelzel August 24, 1894, in the town of Holton, and received her education there. Her marriage to Fred Reynolds took place November 4, 1914, at St. Louis Catholic church, Dorchester. Following their marriage, the couple settled in the town of Holton where they operated the Bruckerville Cheese Factory until 1947, when they moved to Dorchester. Mrs. Reynolds was employed as a cook at the St. Louis school from 1960 to 1964.

She was a member of St. Louis Catholic church and its Altar Society, the Womens Catholic Order of Foresters, and a charter member of the Bruckerville Homemakers club.

Survivors include her husband; and four daughters, Mrs. Melvin (Gladys) Zettler, Loyal, Mrs. Clifford (Grace) Wetterau, Dorchester, and Mrs. Peter (Violet) Rajewski, Wisconsin Rapids, Sister Margaret Mary (Mary Ann), La Crosse; six sons, Frederic A. and Theodore, Wausau, James, Thomas J. and Jerome A., Dorchester, and Alvin, Rochester, N. Y.; two sisters, Miss Otelia Stelzel, Colby, Mrs. Frank (Harriet) Wanke, Stevens Point; three brothers, Louis, Alvin and Martin Stelzel, all of Dorchester; 25 grand children, and five great grand children.