Obit: Tauchen, Meta (Plockelman) (1904 - 1953)

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Surnames: Tauchen, Plockelman, Engel, Pappe, Wilke, Beisner, Fierke, Abegglen, Harder, Grueschow, Hickey, Belle, Pete, Maxam, Hickey

----Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Meta Tauchen (13 Feb 1904 - 18 Aug 1953)

Funeral services for Mrs. Fred S. Tauchen, 49, who died August 18, were held from Zion Evangelical Lutheran church, Stetsonville, Saturday. The Rev. A.J. Engel, pastor of Immanuel Lutheran church, Medford, officiated at the rites at 2:00pm and burial was in the Lutheran cemetery at Stetsonville. Miss Eunice Pappe sang “Jerusalem Thou City Fair and High” and “Asleep in Jesus”. She was accompanied by her father, Waldemar Pappe, who was organist at the ceremony.

Pallbearers were Herman Wilke, Albert Beisner, William Beisner, Victor Fierke, Albert Abegglen and Paul Harder. Fuchsgruber Funeral Service had charge of arrangements, and the deceased lay in state at the local funeral parlors until noon Saturday, when she was taken to the church to lie in state until time of services.

Mrs. Tauchen, who had been seriously ill since early spring, died at 9:15pm August 18 in St. Joseph’s hospital, Marshfield, where she was taken Aug. 7 for treatment.

Meta Alice Plockelman was born Feb 13, 1904, in the Town of Mayville, where she lived until her marriage to Fred S. Tauchen in Dorchester on Jan. 23, 1926. Since her marriage, she had resided with her family on their farm two miles north of the village in the Town of Little Black.

Surviving are her widower, and two children, Harold Tauchen, Woodruff, and Miss Margaret Tauchen, Chicago. Both were here for their mother’s funeral. A daughter, Bernice, died about 20 years ago at the age of 4. Also surviving are four brothers, Emil Plockelman, Milwaukee; George, of Chicago; Roy, Pascoe, Wash., and Walter, in California; four sisters, Mrs. Albert (Ester) Grueschow, Sheboygan Falls; Mrs. William (Ruth) Hickey, Baileys Harbor; Mrs. Robert (Dorothy) Belle, Milwaukee, and Mrs. William (Jean) Pete, Milwaukee.

Those coming from out of town for the rites included Emil Plockelman, Milwaukee; Mrs. Albert Grueschow, Sheboygan Falls; Mrs. Susan Maxam, Babcock; Mr. and Mrs. William Hickey, Baileys Harbor; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tauchen, Brandon; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Tauchen, Barron, and Gerald Tauchen, River Falls.