Obit: Ziebell, Fred H. (1865 - 1956)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Ziebell, Roehl, Gilbertson, Holmes 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) December 6, 1956 
 

Ziebell, Fred H.  (30 July 1865 - 30 November 1956) 
 

Fred H. Ziebell, 81, a retired carpenter of the Neillsville community, died Friday at his home on Rt. 4, where he has resided since his retirement. 
 

Services were held Monday afternoon from the Gilbertson Funeral Home in Granton.  The Rev. Virgil Holmes, pastor of the Methodist Church, officiated. Burial took place in the Neillsville City Cemetery. 
 

Mr. Ziebell was born July 30, 1865, in the Town of Oakland, Jefferson County, where he also attended school.  His marriage to the former Anna Roehl on July 30, 1896, also took place in Jefferson County.  In 1903, they came to Clark County and settled near Withee.  Two years later they moved to Neillsville, where he worked as a carpenter. 
 

He is survived by one son, Norman Ziebell of Brainerd, Minn., and a daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Gilbertson of Granton.  Five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren also survive. 
 

Deceased members of his family are his wife and one son, Clarence, who died in 1926.