Obit: Clouse, Amelia #3 (1880 - 1962)

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Surnames: Clouse, Luepke, Laffe, Hoogewind, Schlei, Lambert

----- Source: Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark Co., Wis.) 07/05/1962

----- Clouse, Amelia #3 (14 MAY 1880 - 29 JUN 1962)

Funeral services for Mrs. Amelia Clouse, 82, of Humbird (Clark Co., Wis.), who died Friday, were held Tuesday afternoon, July 3 at 1:30 at the Methodist Church in Humbird, Rev. Wayne Grover, Eau Claire, officiated and burial was made in the town of Beaver Cemetery near Loyal.

The former Amelia Luepke was born May 14, 1880 at Spencer and was also educated there and at Stevens Point. She was married in 1897 to Edwin Clouse.

The couple farmed in an area north of Loyal. Mrs. Clouse moved to Neillsville in 1934, and in 1947 she moved to Humbird.

She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Henry (Eva) Laffe, Humbird; Mrs. John (Gertrude) Hoogewind, Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Mrs. Kurth (Olive) Schlei, Green Bay; a son, Ben Clouse, Loyal; a sister, Mrs. Arthur Lambert, in Illinois; three brothers, Charles Luepke, Medford; August Luepke, Marshfield, and Fred Luepke, Spencer; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1911, by a son, Frank, in 1951, and by one brother and two sisters.