Obit: Waldhauser, Catherine (1899-1889)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Waldhauser, Ploog, Wolkerstorfer, Weigleitner, Borsch

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (11 April 1989)

LOYAL-- Services will be Thursday at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Loyal, for Catherine Waldhauser, 90, Loyal, who died Sunday at St. Joseph Hospital, Marshfield.

The Rev. Chester Osowski will officiate. Burial will be in the parish cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Steve, Dan, Jim, Dale and Andy Waldhauser and Bill Ploog.

Visitation will be at Rinka Funeral Home, Loyal Wednesday where a Parish Council of Women will be followed by a prayer service.

She was born January 2, 1899, in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Martin and Barbara Wolkerstorfer. She attended St. Bernard's Parochial School, St. Paul.

She was married to Andrew Waldhauser October 15, 1929 in St. Paul. He died July 27, 1984.

She and her husband farmed in the town of Sherman from 1947 until 1970. They moved to the city of Loyal after the retired.

She is survived by four sons, Robert of Loyal, Larry of Fridley, Minnesota, Norman of Sussex, and Raymond of Pahrump, Nevada; one brother, Martin of St. Paul; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Weigleitner and Mrs. Bertha Borsch, both of St. Paul; 22 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Besides her husband, she was predeceased by her parents, one son, Andrew, and five brothers, John, Charles, Russell, Ted, and Joe.