The
Karl & Fredericka Ehlert Family
Contributed
by Helen Vater Blaha from the Ystad collection.
4-Generation Photo: Milt Ystad is the young boy in the photo above. Behind him is his mother, Elsie (Rossow) Ystad (school memento). In white, on the left, is his grandmother, Anna (Ehlert) Rossow. On the right, in the dark print dress, is his great-grandmother Fredericka Ehlert. |
Photo of Karl & Fredericka Ehlert
Obit: Ehlert, Alan M. (1951 - 2000)
Obit: Ehlert, Bernice B. (1904 - 2001)
Obit: Ehlert, Fredericka (1854 - 1939)
Obit: Ehlert, Julius (1892 - 1983)
Obit: Ehlert, Karl (1854 - 1916)
Obit: Ehlert, Wilhelmina (1830 - 1909)
Obit: Rossow, Anna (1880 - 1950)
Obit: Rossow, Auguste (1849 - 1926)
Obit: Rossow, Charles W. (1916 - 1969)
Obit: Rossow, Clara (1891 - 1977)
Obit: Rossow, Edward (1909 - 1978)
Obit: Rossow, Ervin Edward (1900 - 1963)
Obit: Rossow, Nancy G. (1948 - 1995)
Obit: Rossow, Verlin H. (1924 - 1984)
Obit: Rossow, William (1834 - 1910)
Obit: Rossow, William (1873 - 1959)
Obit: Ystad, Eleanor (1911 - 1989)
Obit: Ystad, Ellen B. (1905 - 1989)
Obit: Ystad, Elsie (1906 - 1984)
Obit: Ystad, Hans (1860 - 1943)
Obit: Ystad, Helen O. (1910 - 1910)
Obit: Ystad, Hoken (1899 - 1950)
Obit: Ystad, Odin (1866 - 1937)
Obit: Ystad, Ronald (1934 - 1996)
Obituary for Mrs. William
Rossow
from an undated newspaper clipping in Milt Ystad’s collection
Greenwood -- Funeral services for Mrs. William
Rossow, 69, route 1, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Trinity Lutheran
Church. She died at 11:15 a.m. Sunday following a lingering illness.
Burial will be made in the Greenwood cemetery, the Rev. Walter Schedler officiating.
Friends may pay their respects at the Stabbow Funeral Home beginning Tuesday.
Mrs. Rossow, nee Anna Ehlert, was born Sept. 7, 1880, in Germany (baptismal
certificate). She came to this country with her parents while young and
settled in Loyal. She received her education there and was married there June
7, 1899, to William Rossow.
Since their marriage the couple had made their
home on a farm in the Town of Warner. They celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary last year.
Surviving are her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Olaf (Elsie)
Ystad, route 1, Greenwood. Three brothers, Frank Ehlert, Wild Rose; Otto,
Marshfield; and Albert, Abbotsford; and a sister, Mrs. Emma Komis, Marshfield, also
survive.
A brother and sister preceded her in death.
LOCAL RESIDENT, 85, DIES THIS MORNING
Funeral
Rites Will be Held Monday for Mrs. Fredericka Ehlert
from an undated
newspaper clipping in Milt Ystad collection
Mrs.
Fredericka Ehlert died at 7:25 o’clock this morning
at the age of 85 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Komis, 314 W. Fourth Street,
where she had been making her home for the past nine years.
Mrs. Ehlert had
been in poor health for approximately four years as a result of a complication of
ailments aggravated by old age.
The body will lie in state at the Komis home
on W. Fourth street, where funeral services will be held at 1 o’clock Monday afternoon.
At 1:30 o’clock another service will be held at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, of
which she was a member.
Burial in Loyal
The
Rev. B. F. Matter, pastor, will officiate at the service here, and at the burial
rites in the Lutheran cemetery at Loyal.
Mrs. Ehlert, nee Fredericka Suemnicht,
was born in Bewran-Pommern, Germany, Feb. 27, 1854. She was married in Germany
Oct. 2, 1879 to Karl Ehlert.
On April 17, 1881, Mr. and Mrs. Ehlert came to America
and settled in Iron Ridge, Wis. After living here for one year they came to
Clark County, first living on a farm near Loyal and then moving to the Village of
Loyal.
Six Children Survive
Mr. Ehlert died
in Loyal March 19, 1916. Since November 1930, Mrs. Ehlert has lived in Marshfield
with her daughter.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. William (Anna) Rossow,
Greenwood, and Mrs. Ed (Emma) Komis, Marshfield, and four sons, Frank Ehlert, Wild
Rose, Herman Ehlert, Wausau, Otto Ehlert, Loyal; and Albert Ehlert, Owen.
A daughter, Minnie, died Aug. 4, 1928, and a son, Karl Jr., died in infancy.
Eleven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and a brother, Fred, who lives
in Germany, also survive.
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