Obit: McNeight, Joe Mrs. (1875 - 1959)

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Surnames: McNeight, Reh, Fisher, Compton, Moore, Toelle, Schmidt, Reckner, Horning, O’Connor

----Source: Marathon County Register (Unity, Clark County, Wis.) Friday 30 Oct 1959

McNeight, Joe Mrs. (18 June 1875 - 28 Oct. 1959)

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday at the Reformed Church near Stratford for Mrs. Joe McNeight, 84, who passed away at the Bethel Convalescent Home in Arpin at 1:00 P.M. Wednesday.

The Rev. Rex Reh will officiate at the final rites and burial will be made in the parish cemetery.

The body is reposing at the Sauter Funeral Home at Stratford.

Mrs. McNeight was born June 18, 1875 in Washington County and lived in the Stratford - Unity area most of her life.

She was married to Joe McNeight April 20, 1902. She received her education in the rural schools.

Mr. McNeight passed away in October, 1955.

Surviving children are Everett, Keokuk, Iowa; Allison and Hugh, Stratford; Mrs. C. H. (June) Fisher, Milwaukee; Mrs. Wm. (Ariandne) Compton, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Albert (Idella) Moore, Waukesha. Three sons died in infancy.

Also surviving are 17 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren; and 3 sisters and two brothers preceded her in death.

----Source: Marathon County Register (Unity, Clark County, Wis.) Friday 6 Nov 1959

Funeral services were held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday at the Reformed Church near Stratford for Mrs. Joe McNeight, 84, who passed away at the Bethel Convalescent Home in Arpin at 1:00 P.M. Wednesday.

The Rev. Rex Reh officiated at the final rites and burial was made in the parish cemetery.

Pallbearers were Henry Toelle, Goddard Schmidt, Wm. Reckner, Ervin Horning, Jack O’Connor and ? [missing from paper]

The church group sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "My God and I."

Mrs. McNeight was born June 18, 1875 in Washington County and lived in the Stratford - Unity area most of her life.

She was married to Joe McNeight April 20, 1902. She received her education in the rural schools.

Mr. McNeight passed away in October, 1955.

Surviving children are Everett, Keokuk, Iowa; Allison and Hugh, Stratford; Mrs. C. H. (June) Fisher, Milwaukee; Mrs. Wm. (Ariandne) Compton, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Albert (Idella) Moore, Waukesha. Three sons died in infancy.

Also surviving are 17 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren; and 3 sisters and two brothers preceded her in death.

All of her children except the one daughter from Washington were here for the funeral as well as people from Nebraska, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Keokuk, Ia., Mosinee, Marathon, Marshfield, Colby and Unity.

 

 


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