Obit: Bailke, August (1891 - 1954) 

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Surnames: Bailke, Nacker, Sprengler, Zastrow, Frye, Sauve, Konkel, LaLonde, Tisch, Lauerdorf, Fiebig, Hertel 
 

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 04/15/1954 
 

Bailke, August (3 Sept. 1891 - 12 Apr. 1954) 
 

Funeral services for August Bailke, who died Tuesday, were held this afternoon at the funeral home at Greenwood. Mr. Bailke formerly farmed in this vicinity before moving to a farm near Greenwood. 
 

According to reports, Mr. Bailke had been fighting a fire on his land and was plowing a furrow around the buildings with his tractor. He suffered a heart attack and was found dead by his son, Marvin, about 10 feet away from the tractor. 
 

Mrs. Louis Nacker, Abbotsford, is a daughter. 
 

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 04/22/1954 
 

Funeral services for August Bailke, 63, who died of a heart attack at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 19, while at work on his farm, near Greenwood, were held Thursday afternoon. The Rev. F. H. Sprengler conducted the rites at the Schiller Funeral Home at Greenwood and military rites were conducted by the American Legion Post of Greenwood. Mr. Bailke was a veteran of World War I. Burial was made in the Braun settlement cemetery. 
 

August John Carl Bailke was born Sept. 3, 1891, in Shawano county, where he received his education. On May 8, 1920, he was married to Freda Clara Zastrow, at Medford. 
 

They operated a farm three miles west of Abbotsford and moved from there to the Fiebig farm, south of Abbotsford, having been in this community for 26 years. A year ago last November they moved to a farm in the town of Warren. Mr. Bailke suffered the fatal heart attack while fighting a brush fire that was getting too close to the farm buildings. 
 

Surviving, besides his widow, are: two sons, Leroy Bailke, at home, and Pfc. Marvin Bailke, U.S.M.C., Camp Pendleton, Cal.; three daughters, Mrs. Louis (Bernice) Nacker, Abbotsford; Mrs. Bernard (Genevieve) Frye, Madison; and Beatrice Bailke, at home; one grand child, six sisters, Mrs. Victor Sauve, Muskegon, Mich.; Mrs. Matilda Konkel, Marion; Margaret Hertel and Edythe LaLonde, Milwaukee; Mrs. Gertrude Tisch, California; and Mrs. Mary Lauerdorf, Marinette; three brothers, Edward Bailke, address unknown; Leonard Bailke, Muskegon, Mich.; and Lester Bailke, Marinette. 
 

Two brothers, Roy and Gilbert, preceded him in death.