Obit: Dumke, Ernest B. (1900 – 1973)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Dumke, Wenger

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 21 Jun 1973

Dumke, Ernest B. (18 JAN 1900 – 15 JUN 1973)

Services were held at 3 p.m. on Monday, June 18 at the Kraut-Maurina Funeral Home, Owen, for Ernest R. Dumke, 73, who died Friday at his home.

The Rev. David E. Wenger, pastor of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Longwood, officiated, and burial was made in the Riverside Cemetery.

Mr. Dumke was born January 18, 1900 in Joliet, Illinois. He lived in Waseca County, Minnesota until 1917, when he moved to Stanley. He farmed their until 1958, and then moved to the town of Green Grove (Clark Co., Wis.), where he had been operating a farm with his brother, Clarence.

Survivors include four brothers, Clarence Dumke, route 1, Owen, Arthur Dumke and Walter Dumke, both of Owen, and Fred Dumke, Joliet, Illinois.