Obit: Hoeper, William (1906-1982)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson
Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Hoeper, Maurina, Jorgensen, Serley, Krohn

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (8 January 1982)

Hoeper, William H. (15 December 1906 - 7 January 1982)

OWEN - William H Hoeper, 75, Owen, died Thursday at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire.

Services will be Sunday at Nazareth Lutheran Church in Withee with the Rev. Peter Thomsen, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in Riverside Cemetery, Withee. Friends may call at the Maurina Funeral Home in Owen, where the Owen Masonic Lodge will conduct services.

Mr. Hoeper was born December 15, 1906, at Phlox and graduated in 1923 from the Owen High School. He also graduated in 1936 from the Wausham Mortuary School and later worked for a number of years at the Griebenow Co. at Owen which had a hardware store and undertaking parlor.

In 1954, he started the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home on Owen with Donald Kraut. He retired in 1972 and sold his interest to James Maurina.

He married the former Madeline Jorgensen November 15, 1945, at Lake Geneva She survives.

He served in Germany for three years during World War II.

He was a member of Nazareth Lutheran Church, the Van-Huzien-Fritz American Legion Post of Owen, a 50-year member of the Owen Masonic Lodge, the 32nd Degree Consistory at Eau Claire, the Owen Development Corporation and the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Irna Serley, Broadview, Illinois, and Mrs. Elizabeth Krown, Brookfield, Illinois; and two brothers, Edwin, Medford, and August, Oak Lawn, Illinois.

He was predeceased by a sister and four brothers.