Obit: Schwanebeck, Max (1890 - 1975)

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Surnames: Schwanebeck, Frederickson, Behling, Fluegel

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 2/13/1975

Schwanebeck, Max (24 January 1890 – 9 February 1975)

Funeral services for Max Schwanebeck, 85, longtime resident of the Sherwood area, were to be held from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Sherwood, on Wednesday, February 12, at 1:30 p.m., with burial to follow in the Sherwood Cemetery. Mr. Schwanebeck died February 9 in Neillsville. The Hansen Funeral Home, Marshfield, was in charge of arrangements.

Max Schwanebeck was born January 24, 1890, in Germany and came to the United States with his parents in 1892. The family located in Nebraska. In 1899, he accompanied his parents to Clark County. He attended schools in Nebraska and Sherwood. At an early age he started working away from home in a logging camp at Tripoli in northern Wisconsin and on a farm in Illinois.

On December 23, 1913, Mr. Schwanebeck was married to the former Ella Frederickson at a Lutheran parsonage in Mondovi. He cleared land in Sherwood for the farm home where they lived throughout their married years. The couple observed their 60th wedding anniversary December 23, 1973. Mrs. Schwanebeck preceded her husband in death on May 16, 1974.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Roy Behling of Tipler; a son Glenn Schwanebeck of Pittsville, and three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; two brothers: Charles and Paul Schwanebeck of Sherwood, and a sister, Mrs. Elsie Fluegel.