Obit: Schaefer, Bertha Augusta (Lueddecke) (1882 – 1965)

Contact: Linda Mertens
Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhhistory.org

Surnames: Schaefer, Lueddecke, Evans, Rankl, Stubbs, Danen, Waldhart, Gumz, Robida, Muehler, Plockelman,

----Source – Anna Johnson’s Scrapbook

Bertha August (Lueddecke) Schaefer (19 Aug 1881 – 1 Oct 1965)

Funeral services for Mrs. Bertha Schaefer, 82, of Stetsonville, were held from Peace Evangelical United Church of Christ here (Dorchester, Clark Co., WI) Monday, Oct. 4. Rev. Hugh W. Evans, pastor, officiated at the 2:00 p.m. rites. Mrs. Jerome Rankl was organist and played accompaniment for Miss Sharon Stubbs who sang “Abide with Me” and “Near to the Heart of God.”

Burial was in Dorchester Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Maurina Funeral home. Pallbearers were grandsons: Kenneth Schaefer, Michael Danen, Norman Danen, Herbert Waldhart, James Schaefer and Fred Gumz.

Mrs. Schaefer died Friday in Memorial hospital, Medford, where she underwent surgery on Monday. She had been in reasonably good health before her illness, and doing her own housework up to Monday noon when she became ill.

Bertha Augusta Lueddecke was born Aug. 19 1882, in the town of Mayville, and had resided in this area all her life. She and Max Schaefer were married May 26, 1902, in Peace Evangelical church here. They farmed in the town of Holton on the farm now occupied by John Robida until 1950, when they moved to Medford. In 1953, they moved to Stetsonville, into a home they built, where she has since resided. Mr. Schaefer died in 1964. She was a member of Peace Evangelical United Church of Christ.

Surviving are four sons: Walter and Louis of Medford, Reinhold of Abbotsford, and Arnold of Milwaukee; a daughter: Mrs. Clarence (Elsie) Danen of Stetsonville; 24 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; two sisters: Mrs. Bruno Muehler, town of Holton, and Mrs. Hattie Plockelman, Milwaukee; one brother: Louis Lueddecke, Abbotsford.

Preceding her in death besides her husband were two daughters: Mrs. Mike (Ella) Gumz and Mrs. Charles (Clara) Waldhart; two brothers and two sisters.