Obit: Abel, Louisa (1875 - 1949)


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Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

 

Surnames: ABEL FRANZ LAUBE ELMER WENDT

 

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wis.) 08/??/1949

 

Abel, Louisa (6 DEC 1875 - 11 AUG 1949)

 

Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.) - Mrs. Frank H. Abel, 73, a resident of Greenwood for 67 years, died yesterday morning about 6:10 o’clock at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Laube, in Colby. She had been visiting there for the last week.

 

Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. in her home, 5 ½ miles southwest of Greenwood, and at West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church at 2 p.m. The Rev. J.C. Klingeberger will officiate.

 

The body will lie in state at the Schiller Funeral Home until Sunday morning. Burial will be made in the West Side Cemetery.

 

Mrs. Abel, the former Louisa Franz, was born Dec. 6, 1875, in Sheboygan, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. August Franz. She married Frank Abel Sept. 29, 1897. They observed their golden wedding anniversary in 1947.

 

Following their marriage the couple moved to their present home and have lived there ever since. Her husband survives her.

 

Also surviving Mrs. Abel are three daughters and two sons, Mrs. Carl (Laura) Laube, Colby; Mrs. Walter (Ella) Elmer, Milwaukee; Mrs. Adolph (Florine) Wendt, Owen; and Otto and Adolph Abel, both of Greenwood. Two sons died in infancy. She is also survived by 17 grandchildren. One sister and three brothers preceded her in death.

 

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                 Obit: Abel, Louise #2 (1875 - 1949)

                 Contact: betty@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

                 Surnames: Abel, Franz, Laube, Elmer, Wendt

                ----Source: Scrapbook of Bertha and Caroline (Wehrmann) Volk 1930-1950’s

               Abel, Louise #2 (06 DEC 1875 - 11 AUG 1949)

               Mrs. Frank Abel, nee Louise Franz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Franz was born December 6, 1975 in Sheboygan.

              On September 29, 1897 she was united in marriage with Frank Abel at Greenwood and following their marriage they moved to their                present farm home and have lived there ever since. In 1947 they observed their golden wedding anniversary. Mrs. Abel has lived in Greenwood for 67 years.

       Mrs. Abel passed away at 6:10 a.m. on Thursday, August 11, 1949 at the home of her son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Carl Laube in Colby.

         Surviving are her husband, three daughters Mrs. Carl (Laura) Laube, Colby; Mrs. Walter (Ella) Elmer, Milwaukee; Mrs. Adolph (Florine) Wendt, Owen; two sons Otto and Adolph of Greenwood. She is also survived by 17 grandchildren. Two sons died in infancy and three brothers and one sister preceded her in death.

 

 

 

 

 


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