Obit: Glasow, Bertha (1885 - 1951)

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Surnames: Glasow, Beyer, Fritsche, Strangfeld, Wulff, Worchel, Oldham, Dux, Hemp, Hoppa, Hagedorn, Meihack, Holzhauser

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) November 15, 1951

Glasow, Bertha (30 June 1885 - 11 November 1951)

A resident of the Town of Weston, Mrs. Fred Glasow, age 66, died at the Medford Clinic on Sunday, November 11, at 8:45 p.m. She had been ill for the past week. Death was due to a heart attack.

The body will lie in state at the Ruesch Funeral Home in Medford until Thursday noon when it will be taken to the Lutheran Church at Stetsonville to lie in state until services at 1:30 p.m. Interment will be made in the Lutheran Cemetery with the Rev. P. Holzhauser officiating.

Mrs. Glasow, nee Bertha Beyer, was born on June 30, 1885 in the Town of Weston. On November 22, 1904 she was married to Fred Glasow in the Town of Pine Valley. She spent the greater part of her life in the Town of Weston, with the exception of the past two weeks when she moved with her husband to the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. L. Fritsche in Dorchester, Wis.

She is survived by her husband and two daughters: Mrs. R. L. (Verona) Fritsche of Dorchester, and Mrs. John (Elizabeth) Strangfeld of Neillsville; eight grandchildren: three great-grandchildren; and four sisters, Mrs. Albert (Minnie) Wulff of North Brook, Ill., Ida Beyer and Margaret Beyer of Chicago, Mrs. Ewald (Lilla) Worchel of Neillsville.

One daughter, Mrs. Lafayette (Erna) Oldham, one half-sister, and one half-brother preceded her in death.

Pallbearers were Herman Dux, Herman Hemp, Arnold Hoppa, Ervin Hemp, Julius Hagedorn, and Alvin Meihack.

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