Obit: Schoelzel, Olivia (1907 – 1969)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Schoelzel, Dix, Gutenberger, Wachtendork, Chamberlain, Christenson, Sheets, Philips, Goetz, Seefeldt, Hodak, Majerus

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 03/06/1969

Schoelzel, Olivia (2 OCT 1907 – 4 MAR 1969)

Mrs. Olivia Schoelzel, 61, Colby, died Tuesday morning, March 4, 1969, at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield.

Funeral services will be held Friday, march 7, at 1:30 p.m. at the first United Church of Christ, Colby, and burial will be made in Colby Memorial Cemetery. The Rev. Kenneth Dix will officiate.

The body will lie in state at the Lulloff Funeral Home beginning Thursday, March 6, at noon.

Olivia Gutenberger was born in Colby October 2, 1907. She married Rudolph Schoelzel in Colby at the First United Church of Christ. She received her education in the Colby schools. Mrs. Schoelzel lived in the town of Colby (Clark Co., Wis.) until1963, when they moved to the town of Hull (Marathon Co., Wis.), where she had lived since that time. She was a member of the First United Church of Christ.

Survivors, besides her husband, include 19 children, Rudolph Jr. of Union Grove, Wis.; Darlene (Mrs. Ed Wachtendork), Stevens Point; Doris (Mrs. Albert Chamberlain), St. Croix Falls; Jerold of Antioch, Ill.; Lyle of Curtiss; Beatrice (Mrs. Oscar Christenson), Wausau; Darnell of Colby; Ione (Mrs. John Sheets), Loyal; Emerita (Mrs. Ray Philips), Blooming Prairie, Minn.; Audriss (Mrs. Ralph Goetz), Unity, Ronald of Curtiss; Glen of Shiocton; Staff Sgt. James of Ft Sheridan, Ill.; Patricia (Mrs. Wayne Seefeldt) of Hutchinson, Minn.; Sandra (Mrs. Jim Hodak), Marshfield; Coleen (Mrs. Greg Majerus), Abbotsford; Arlyn of Nashville, Tenn.; Dennis of Fox Lake, Ill., and Corliss Schoelzel, at home; 59 grandchildren and three brothers, Elroy of Colby, Allen of Christie and Milton of Burlington.