Obit: Broeren, Theodore (1899 - 1953)
Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Broeren, Treat, Clancy, Carney, Pagel

----Source: Thorp Courier (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 10/22/1953

Broeren, Theodore (13 JUN 1899 - 7 OCT 1953)

Funeral services were conducted at St. Bernard’s Church here by Rev. A. M. Muckerheide on Monday, Oct. 12th at 9:30 a.m. for Theodore Broeren, 54, of Merrill, who passed away of cancer at St. Joseph’s Hospital at Marshfield on Oct. 7, 1953. He had been ill since last April when he underwent major surgery at that hospital.

Ted Broeren started in the feed store business while a young man as an employee of the E. J. Crane feed warehouse in Thorp (Clark Co., Wis.). He became manager of the Crane warehouse at Abbotsford and alter moved to Medford where he managed that Crane branch for twenty years.

He moved to Edgar as Crane manager for two years and then for the past four years was manager of O & H Feed Store at Merrill until his resignation three years ago. He was then employed for a year with the Wisconsin Window Unit and was forced to retire because of ill health.

Mr. Broeren was born on a farm in the Town of Reseburg, south of Thorp, on June 13, 1899. He was untied in marriage to Helen Treat at Abbotsford on Feb. 14, 1928.

Besides his wife he is survived by three sons, James, with the U.S. Air Force in Germany, Ray at home and Jack in the Navy, stationed in Norfolk, Va., and one daughter, Carol at home; six brothers, Ben of Bloomer, Robert, Herbert and Frank of Thorp; Henry of Tiskilwa, Ill. and Elmer of Stanley; three sisters, Mrs. Harriet Pagel of Thorp, Mrs. ann Clancy of Milwaukee and Mrs. Celia Carney of Springfield, mass.

He was laid to rest in St. Bernard’s Cemetery at Thorp. Pallbearers were nephews, Gen Broeren, Jim Pagel, Don Broeren, Clarence Fisher, Richard Rubisch and Neil Broeren.