Obit: Kugel, Josephine (1884 – 1977)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Kugel, Hodnik, Smackulawa, Baldeschwiler, Svoboda, Klauber

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 09 Feb 1977

Kugel, Josephine (21 Jan 1884 – 5 Feb 1977)

Mrs. Josephine Kugel, 93, of 204 Fifth Street, Abbotsford, died at 11:15 p.m. Sunday at her home.

Services were held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Bernard’s Catholic Church in Abbotsford, with burial following in the Abbotsford Public Cemetery. The Rev. Emil B. Hodnik, pastor, officiated.

The former Josephine Smackulawa was born January 21, 1884 in Bohemia, and was married to John Kugel on October 14, 1902 in Shawano. She came to the United States in 1901 and lived in Shawano County, and then at rural New London, where she worked as a cook in the sawmill camps.

Later she moved to the Town of Longwood, rural Withee. In 1930 they moved to a farm in the Town of Hull, Marathon County, and farmed until 1946. They had lived in Abbotsford for the past three years.

She was an honorary member of St. Bernard’s Altar Society.

Her husband died in 1960. They had celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1952.

Survivors include three sons, James and Rudolph, both of Abbotsford and Ernest, Gresham; two daughters, Mrs. Fred (Mamie) Baldeschwiler, Jim Falls, and Mrs. Alfred (Agnes) Svoboda, Colby; a step-sister, Mrs. Rose Klauber, Austria; 8 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and 15 great-great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a sister, two brothers and a granddaughter.