Obit: Blodgett, Laura (1895 – 1970)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Blodgett, Tellock, Maki, Hamm, Hiebsch, Knight, Lokken, Erickson, Thompson, Kopp, Anderson, Smith, Reasoner, Bowen, Rhude, Mack, Gue, Weater

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 16 Apr 1970

Blodgett, Laura (24 JAN 1895 – APR 1970)

Funeral services were conducted Monday, April 6, 1970 from St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Curtiss, for Mrs. Laura Blodgett, with Pastor Roger Tellock officiating. Hymns, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" and "In the Garden" were sung by granddaughters, Kathryn and Marilyn Maki, with Miss Donna Ham at the organ.

Services were also held in Flemington, New Jersey at the Holcomb-Fisher Funeral Home on Saturday, April 4, with clergymen Robert Gue and Rev. Leon Weaver officiating. She was flown to Eau Claire, where Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Directors took charge. Interment was att the Norwegian Cemetery, where her husband was buried.

Pallbearers were friends of the family, Joseph Hiebsch, Owen; Chet Knight, Abbotsford; John Lokken, Cornel Erickson, Art Thompson and Harry Kopp of Curtiss.

Mrs. Blodgett was born to Norwegian immigrant parents, C.V. and Anna Anderson, on January 24, 1895 at Elk mound, Wis. She was married to Joseph D. Blodgett in March 1914, living for a time at Elk Mound, and then farming in the Eau Claire area until 1930. They moved to the Owen-Curtiss (Clark Co., Wis.) to a farm in the town of Hoard in May of 1930. Her husband preceded her in death in January 1937. She moved to Abbotsford in 1938, where she lived until 1948, when she left the area to make her home near her children in New Jersey.

Survivors include four sons, Curtis and J. Dixon of Somerville, N.J.; Wayne and Charles of Flemington, N.J.; four daughters, Mrs. LeRoy (Hazel) Smith of Sergeantsville, N.J.; Mrs. William C. (May) Reasoner, Flemington, N.J.; Mrs. Floyd (Phyllis) Bowen of Owen, and Mrs. William T. (Ilene) Maki of rural Owen; two brothers, Martin Anderson, Barron, Wis., and Fred Anderson, Forest Lake, Minn.; two sisters, Mrs. Henry (Edna) Rhude, Eau Claire, and Mrs. A.W. (Carolyn) Mack of California. One son, Percy, and two brothers, and two sisters and her parents preceded her in death.

She leaves 28 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends.