Obit: Voge, Grace (1903-1982)

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

Surnames: Voge, Miller, Frane, Wibben, Bilz

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (19 January 1982)

Voge, Grace F. (10 September 1903 - 18 January 1982)

ABBOTSFORD - Services for Mrs. Grace F. Voge, 78, Abbotsford, will be Thursday at Christ Lutheran Church. Mrs. Voge died Monday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, where she had been admitted January 2.

Officiating will be the Kenneth L. Loehrke, pastor. Burial will be in the Abbotsford Public Cemetery. Friends may call at the Maurina Funeral home in Abbotsford.

The former Grace Frieda Miller was born September 10, 1903 in the town of Lake (Butternut?), Price County, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Miller. She attended a country school in the same township. She was married to Adolph E. Voge March 11, 1921 in Michigan. He died June 18, 1974. They had celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1971.

Following their marriage, they lived in Park Falls for three years and then moved to a farm west of Abbotsford. They lived there until the spring of 1958, when they retired and moved to the city of Abbotsford.

She was a member of Christ Lutheran Church and its Ladies Aid.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Vincent (Irene) Frane, Owen, and Mrs. Robert (Marian) Wibben, Colby; two sons, Edward, Owen, and Donald, Abbotsford; a sister, Mrs. Paul (Nelda) Bilz, Butternut; two brothers, Henry Miller, Mankato, Minnesota, and Ferdinand Miller, Panama City, Florida; 18 grandchildren; and 20 great grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was predeceased by a brother and four sisters.