Obit: Stumpf, Lydia (1899 – 1974)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Stumpf, Ruprich, Junker, Smock, Lindberg, Klabunde, Refue, Shady, Sterzinger, Knop, Stroschine, Janko

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 23 May 1974

Stumpf, Lydia (3 Dec 1899 – 17 May 1974)

Mrs. Lydia J. Stumpf, 74, Route 1, Medford, a former Dorchester area resident, died at Medford Hospital Friday, May 17, 1974. Funeral services were held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at Kingdom Hall at Dorchester, with Robert Ruprich officiating. Burial was in Stetsonville Public Cemetery. Kraut-Maurina Funeral Home was in charge. Pallbearers were Arnold Ruprich, Elmer Junker, Ralph Smock, Wayne indberg, Bernard Klabunde, and John Klabunde.

Lydia Refue was born December 3, 1899 at Germfast, Michigan. She was married to George Stumpf on August 28, 1920 at Dorchester. After their marriage they farmed in the town of Holton for 33 years. He died March 1, 1953. She moved to Fond du Lac and worked in a bakery for two years. She also worked as a cook for eight years for Pure-Air Sanitarian at Bayfield. After her retirement in 1967 she had lived in a mobile home on the Rudolph Janko farm, near Medford.

Survivors include four sons, Hebert Stumpf, Columbus, Georgia, Jacke Stumpf, Oshkosh, Donald Stumpf and James Stumpf, both of San Rafael, California; five daughters, Mrs. Viola Shady, Fond du Lac, Mrs. George (Violet) Sterzinger, Colby, Mrs. Alfred (Hattie) Knop, Rib Lake, Mrs. Robert (Eleanora), Stroschine, North Fond du Lac, and Mrs. Rudolph (Hilda) Janko, Medford; 27 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband and two sons.