Obit: Spiegel, Mary Ann (1957 - 1974)

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

Surnames: Spiegel, Laufenberg, Lulloff, Koopman

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 8/29/1974

Spiegel, Mary Ann (10 September 1957 – 26 August 1974)

A sixteen-year-old area girl died early Monday morning of what the Clark County Coroner Robert Lulloff has stated as an “apparent cardiac arrest with no pre-determinate causes.”

The girl, Mary Ann Spiegel, was found dead by her father, Bruce, R. 2 Granton, in an area near the farm barn. Investigating officers reported that the girl had risen early and had gone to “re-stake” several bulls kept on the Spiegel farm. They stated that it was apparent that after re-staking the bulls, the girl was returning to the barn to assist her father in early chores. Time of death was put at between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m.

The Spiegel girl was pronounced dead on arrival at the Neillsville Memorial Hospital. Coroner Lulloff ordered the body to an Eau Claire hospital where a pathologist determined the cause of death. Lulloff added that further post-mortem tests were being conducted by the pathologists but that little change was expected in the “cause of death.”

Mary Spiegel had been active in school athletics, including track, and was an active participant in the family farm operation. She would have been a senior at Neillsville High School.

Born on September 10, 1957, Mary Spiegel is survived by her father, Bruce, and Mother, Teresa Laufenberg Spiegel. Surviving brothers and sisters include: Bernard of Stoughton, David of Milwaukee, Bruce of Englewood, Colorado, John of Eau Claire, and Joe, Diane, Marilyn, Lynette and Lorie all at home.

Services were to be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. from St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Neillsville with burial at the church’s cemetery, officiated by the Rev. Leander Koopman.