Obit: Luedtke, Raymond (1951 - 1974)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Luedtke, Hardwig, Schalinski, Zimler, Chawla, Passel, Boh, Kokaly, Todd, Kalemis

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 3/07/1974

Luedtke, Raymond (23 April 1951 - 5 March 1974)

Raymond Luedtke, 22, of Boyd died Tuesday at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire from injuries sustained in a car accident. Funeral services were held on Friday from the Anderson Funeral Home at Augusta. Rev. Edmund Kalemis, pastor of Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, officiated, with burial in the Ludington Cemetery.

Mr. Luedtke was born in the Wilson Township on April 23, 1951 to Mr. and Mrs. William Luedtke, Boyd. He attended Wilson Township and Stanley schools.

On August 24, 1971, he was married to Barbara Hardwig at Willard. After their marriage they lived in the Willard area for a short time where he was employed at the North Hendren Cooperative Dairy Co., later moving to Boyd.

Surviving are his wife, one son, Raymond, Jr., his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Luedtke, Boyd, and one brother, William of Boyd; and four sisters: Mrs. Dale Schalinski, Augusta; Mrs. William Zimler, Mrs. Bertha Chawla both of Stanley and Mrs. Louis Passel of Boyd.

Mr. Luedtke was a member of Mark Hubbard Cadillac Cowboy orchestra and worked to the Eau Claire County highway department.

People from the Willard area that attended the funeral services Friday were: Mrs. Sylvia Boh, Dan Boh, William Kokaly, Mrs. Hannah Kokaly, Mrs. William Boh, Darwin and Mary Kokaly, Mr. and Mrs. John Todd of Brookfield, Il.; Cynthia Hardwig, Madison; Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Kokaly, Thorp; and Mrs. Matilda Hardwig of Chicago, Il.