Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 10/19/1983

Dobbe, Edd (1894 - 1983)

Edd Dobbe, 89, formerly of Loyal, Clark County, who had been residing at the Veterans Home in King, Wis. since 1977, died at the home on Monday evening, Oct. 17, 1983.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 20, 1983, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Loyal. Officiating will be Rev. Joseph Kraly.

Interment will be in the Loyal Lutheran Cemetery. Full military rites will be conducted by the Loyal American Legion. Legion Members will serve as pallbearers.

Friends may call at Rinka Funeral Home, Loyal, after 4 p.m., Wednesday and at the church after 9:30 a.m., Thursday, until the time of the service. Rinka Funeral Home, Loyal, is in charge of arrangements.

Edd Dobbe was born on March 5, 1894, at Esterville, Iowa. He received his education at Iowa Schools. He came to Clark County as a young man.

On June 24, 1920, he and Agnes Schmidt were married in Clark County. They farmed in the Town of Beaver, moving to the City of Loyal in 1972. In 1977 he moved to the Veterans Home at King.

He was a World War II veteran and a member of the Loyal American Legion. He had served as treasurer for the Town of Beaver for many years.

He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Victor (Virginia) Neubauer of Watertown, Mrs. Shirley Coulthurst of Gainesville, Fla., and Mrs. Walter (Marlene) Mews of Marshfield six grandchildren several great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Preceding him in death were his wife, in 1972, and three brothers.