Elsie (Elise, Lizzie) Bloom Obituary

----Source: The Marshfield New-Herald, November 30, 1991

Loyal -- Elsie (Lizzie) Bloom, 95, formerly of Loyal, died Saturday at the home of her daughter in Marshfield where she had resided for the past year.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church, Loyal, with the Rev. Joseph Kraly officiating.  Burial will be in town of Beaver Cemetery, rural Loyal, Clark County.

Pallbearers will be David, Ronald, Dennis and John Bloom, Byron Zepplin and Harold Dahl.

Visitation will be in Rinka Funeral Home, Loyal, from 4-9 p.m. today and then at the church one hour before service time Tuesday.

She was born Dec. 22, 1896, in Switzerland to the late Gottlieb and Marie (Kernan) Brechbuhl.  She received her education in Switzerland and came to the United States in 1913.

She was married to Henry Bloom July 12, 1916, in Central City, Iowa.  He died Aug. 27, 1940.

She and her husband farmed in Iowa until 1918.  They then moved to the town of Beaver and farmed there until 1958.  At that time the farm was sold to her son, Glen.  She moved to the city of Loyal in 1960 and lived there until 1990.  She then moved to Marshfield and resided with her daughter.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.

Survivors include fours sons, Leo of Unity, Lester and Glen, both of Loyal, and Clifford of Tokyo, Japan; two daughters, Mrs. Albert (Esther) Schulze of Neenah and Mrs. Karl (Inez) Ockershauser of Marshfield; one sister, Mrs. Rosa Robinson of San Diego, Calif.; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

She was also predeceased by one brother and two sisters.
 

Henry Bloom Obituary
from an undated newspaper clipping

Henry Bloom, a resident of the town of Beaver for the past 22 years, died at his farm home six and one-half miles northeast of Loyal at 12:45 Tuesday morning, Aug. 27, 1940.

Mr. Bloom was born April 18, 1877 in Lynn County, Iowa.  He attained the age of 63 years, 4 months and 9 days.  His death resulted from cancer.

The year of 1916, July 12 he was married to Miss Lizzie Brechfrehl (Brechbuhl) at Manchester, Iowa.

The deceased leaves to mourn his wife and six children, namely:  Leo and Esther of Owen; Inez, Milwaukee; Lester, Glen, and Clifford at home.  One sister, Mrs. Anna Whitney, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and one brother, L. C. Bloom, Red Cloud, Nebraska, also survive.  Four sisters and one brother preceded him in death.

Mr. Bloom received his education in the Iowa schools.  He was a successful farmer in the town of Beaver.  He was a kind and loving husband and father and will be sadly missed by the family.

The body was taken to the Co-operative Funeral Home at Marshfield and was taken to the home Thursday.

Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at 1:30 at the home and at 2:00 at the Loyal Methodist Church of which he was a member. The Rev. Orlando Jewell officiated at the rites.  Interment was made in the Beaver cemetery.

Pall bearers were Ben Erwin, Wm. Fohrman, Walter Pieper, Joseph Pachal, Emil and Joe Shefchik.

Flower girls were Lucille Fohrman, Edna Pieper, Alice Pachal, Irene Shefchik, Norma Herdrich, and Lorea Gardner.

Those from away who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Whitney of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Enabuit, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Whitney of Central City Iowa, and Mr. Joseph Rossi of Milwaukee.