Obit:

Damert, Edna (1913 - 2001)

Contact:

Stan

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stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

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DAMERT HAUSER GRIMM STRATFORD MEYER DEMERT SERCHEN LAU

 

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 03/21/2001
 

Damert, Edna (1913 - 2001)


Edna Damert, 87, Neillsville, died on Tuesday, March 13, 2001, at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield. Funeral services were held at 1 p.m., on Friday, March 16, at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Neillsville. The Rev. Timothy Biebert officiated. Interment was in the Neillsville City Cemetery. Pallbearers were Dan Elmhorst, Calvin Gerhardt, Pete Erickson, Earl Luchterhand, Floyd Schoen, and Allen Scott.


Edna Nettie Grimm was born on May 7, 1913, in Arpin, to Albert and Emma (nee Hauser) Grimm. She attended schools in Arpin and Marshfield. She married Lawrence Damert in June 1930, in Arpin. After their marriage, they lived near Babcock, and later moved to a farm in Marshfield. In 1937, they moved to the Neillsville area where they farmed until retiring in 1979. He died in 1982. She was a member of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church and its Ladies Aide. She also belonged to the Good Neighbors Homemakers Club. She enjoyed making crafts, doing crossword puzzles, and crocheting.


Survivors include two daughters, Marjorie Lau, Stratford, and Audrey Meyer, Neillsville two sons, Leonard (Carol) Damert, Cassville, and David (Joy) Damert, Portland, Ore. 12 grandchildren 17 great-grandchildren three great-great-grandchildren one brother, Glenn (Dorothy) Grimm, Harrisburg, Pa. two sisters-in-law, Vera Grimm, New Glarus, and Gertrude DeMert, Neillsville one aunt, Bertha Serchen, Marshfield and several nieces and nephews.


She was preceded in death by her parents her husband, Lawrence four sister, Margaret, Rachelle, Marie and Alma one brother, Marvin and one son-in-law, Arthur Lau.


The Gesche Funeral Home, Neillsville, assisted the family with arrangements.

 

 


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