Obit: Dankemyer, Martin (1890-1981)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson
Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Dankemyer, Johnson, Luchterhand, Todd, Maretti, Hanke, Voigt, Loos

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (23 January 1981)

Dankemyer, Martin A. (21 July 1890-23 January 1981)

CHILI-- Martin A. Dankemyer, 90, Route 1, who had served as director and president of Lynn Mutual Insurance Company died today at Memorial Hospital, Neillsville.

The funeral will be Sunday at Hansen Funeral Home, Marshfield. Burial will be in Yolo Cemetery. The Rev. Horst W. Augustin of Christ Lutheran Church is to officiate.

Pallbearers, all grandsons of Mr. Dankemyer, will be William Jr. and Tom Dankemyer, Phillip Johnson, Gerald and Gary Luchterhand, Ted and Tracy Todd and John Maretti.

Mr. Dankemeyer was born July 21, 1890 in the town of Fremont to Mr. and Mrs. August (Caroline Hanke) Dankemyer. He attended Big Four School in that township and an automotive school in Milwaukee in 1911.

His marriage to Martha Voigt took place April 5, 1911 in Milwaukee. They observed their 60th wedding anniversary in 1971.

He farmed all of his life in the town of Fremont. He became a director of Lynn Mutual Insurance Company in 1935. The next year, he was elected vice-president of that company in 1951. He held that office until 1962 when the Fire and Tornado companies merged.

He served on the Big Four School Board; was a member of Neillsville Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons; was a director of Riverside Cheese Factory many years; served as director of First National Bank, Neillsville, 17 years; and was a member of Christ Lutheran Church.

Surviving are his wife; one son, William Sr. of Chili; one daughter, Mrs. Elmer (Wanda) Johnson of West Allis; six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, William, Granton, and Leo, Chili; and one sister, Mrs. Hannah Loos, Mayo, Maryland. One brother is deceased.