Obit: Keller, Clara E. (1900 - 1945)

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Surnames: Keller, Klingeberger, Lawson, Fandel, Grassman, Tykac, Klinkeberger, Jensen, Fisher, Jackson, Weideman, Kelsey, Gosse, Dolan, Daenicke, Laack, Kieser, Uhlig, Ellerman, Janda, Grassom, Garbish, Schaefer, McKeand, Montag, Worchel, Schlinsog, Quicker

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 11/08/1945

Clara E. (18 July 1900 - 6 Nov. 1945)

Funeral services for Mrs. Rollie Keller, 45, whose death occurred Nov. 6, will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the Zink Funeral Home where the body is lying in state. The Rev. Klingeberger will officiate at the rites and burial will be made in the cemetery at Lynn, in Clark county.

Clara E. Lawson was born July 18, 1900 in Sheboygan county. For several years she taught school near Granton and continued at this profession in schools near Abbotsford for several years after her marriage to Rollie Keller on April 6, 1921, at Marshfield.

Most of her married life was spent in Abbotsford, Wis.

Mrs. Keller had been in ill health the past few years and died at her home, Tuesday, at 12:30 p.m.

She is survived by her husband and three children, Mrs. Lorraine L. Fandel (Dolly) recently discharged from the Waves, of Norfolk, Va., Ralph and Sylvia, at home.

Her father, H. T. Lawson, and sister, Mrs. Myrtle Grassman, Sheboygan Falls; another sister, Mrs. Grace Tykac, Chili; and a brother, Earl Lawson, of Oregon, Wis., also survive. Her mother preceded her in death about 18 years ago.

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 11/15/1945

Funeral services for Mrs. Rollie Keller, 45, who died at her home, Nov. 6, were held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the Zink Funeral Home. The Rev. J. C. Klinkeberger, of the West Side Reformed church of Greenwood, conducted the services during which the Misses Esther and Margaret Jensen sang with Miss Fischer, of Dorchester, playing the accompaniment.

The body was taken to Lynn for internment.

Acting as pallbearers were: Walter Jackson, Herbert Weideman, George Kelsey, Fred Gosse, Sally Jensen, and Clarence Dolan.

The flower girls were: Elaine Daenicke, Jean Laack, Doris Kieser, Janet Uhlig, Loretta Ellerman and Martha Janda.

Among relatives from away who attended the funeral were: Mrs. Lorraine Fandel, Norfolk, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lawson, Oregon, Wis.; Henry T. Lawson and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grassom, Sheboygan Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Garbish and daughter, Elaine and Mr. and Mrs. Les Schaefer and daughter, Marlene, Milwaukee; Mrs. C. E. McKeand, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Emil Tykac, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Beil, Mrs. Harold Montag and William Worchel and son, Carl, Chili; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schlinsog, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schlinsog and son, Robert, Mrs. Herman Schlinsog and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Quicker, Granton.

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