Obit: Schoengarth, Arthur Paul (1902 - 1957)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Schoengarth, Kloff, Menning, Walker, Gault, Lamovec, Kaudy, Susa, Dayton, Carl, Barr, Hribar, Lange, Tolaney, Krejci, Johnson, Fitzl, Humboldt, Holmes, Holman, Sloniker, Zickert, Roehl, Brauer 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) March 21, 1957 
 

Schoengarth, Arthur Paul (18 May 1902 - March 1957) 
 

Funeral services were conducted Friday for Arthur Paul Schoengarth, 54, who died in a car accident west of Greenwood.  Services were held from the Georgas Funeral Home and the Rev. H. F. Brauer of Greenwood officiated.  Burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery.   
 

Mr. Schoengarth was born May 18, 1902, in the Town of Grant.  He was the son of Fred and Anna (Kloff) Schoengarth.  He attended Happy Hollow School and worked on the home farm.  His marriage to Edith Menning took place December 28, 1927, at Winona, Minn. 
 

Following their marriage they farmed in the Town of York for 14 years before moving to the Greenwood area, where they have been for the past eight years.   
 

He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church at Greenwood. 
 

He is survived by his wife and three children: Merlon Schoengarth of Willard; Mrs. Bernard (Delores) Walker, Willard; Robert Schoengarth, Greenwood; his father, Fred Schoengarth of Neillsville; a sister, Mrs. Alvina Gault, Greenwood; and a brother, Albert Schoengarth of Neillsville. Four grandchildren also survive. 
 

Pallbearers were: Frank Zickert, Edwin Johnson, Robert Fitzel, Elroy Johnson, William Roehl and Tom Krejci.  Mrs. William Roehl and Mrs. Frank Zickert were in charge of the flowers. 
 

Those from out of town attending included: Mrs. Arthur Schoengarth, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lamovec, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kaudy, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Christie, Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Susa, Mrs. Donald Dayton, Mrs. Irvin Carl, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Barr, Mrs. Alvina Gault, all of Greenwood; Mr. and Mrs. Merlon Schoengarth, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hribar, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lange, Harold Lange, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tolaney, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Krejci, Edwin Johnson, Robert Fitzl, and Mrs. Cora Humboldt, all of Willard; Robert Schoengarth, John Fitzl, Mrs. Fern Fitzl, Harvard, Ill.; Wilfred, Franklin and Gene Gault, Gary, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Holmes and Bernard Holmes, Humbird; Lester Holman and Gene Holman, Rockford, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Sloniker, Stetsonville; Mr. and Mrs. Manly Walker, Wisconsin Rapids; and D. E. Walker, Fairchild.