Surnames: BEALER GROBE MEISSNER GARBISCH GARBSCH DOW FRANK

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 07/20/1983

Bealer, Lena C. (1892 - 1983)

Lena C. Bealer, 91, of Chili, Clark County, died on Tuesday morning, July 12, 1983, at Marshfield Convalescent Center.

Funeral services were at 1 p.m., Friday, July 15, 1983, at United Methodist Church, Chili. Officiating was Rev. Frank Hinebaugh. Mrs. Helen Grimm was organist.

Burial was in Yolo Cemetery, Town of Fremont, with Dale, Lavern, Edwin and Jerrold Meissner and Gary and David Gluch, all great-nephews, serving as pallbearers. Rinka Funeral Home, Loyal, handled arrangements.

Lena Grobe was born to Herman and Ernestine Grobe on June 19, 1892, at Germany. She received her education in the Chili area.

On August 8, 1911, she and William Bealer were married at Chili. They farmed in the Town of Fremont. After his death in 1964, she resided with her sister, Mrs. Bertha Meissner, until entering the nursing home in Sept. 1978.

She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Chili and of the Forestside Homemakers.

Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Bertha Meissner of Chili and one brother, Edwin Grobe of Chili.

Preceding her in death besides her husband and parents were one brother, August Grobe two sisters, Minnie Garbisch and Mary Dow and two half-brothers, Fred and Otto Frank.