Obit: Roidt, Martin (1884 - 1954)

 

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Surnames: Roidt, Watruba, King, Shefchik, Clouse, Miller, Shefchik, Widmore, Wisnosky, Riha, Kunish, Cekan, Weister

 

----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark Co., WI.) August 26, 1954

 

Roidt, Martin (–18 February 1884 - 19 August 1954)

 

Funeral services for Martin Roidt, 70, of Riplinger, were held in St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Loyal at 9 a.m. Saturday Aug. 21.  He died in St. Joseph’s hospital, Marshfield, at 2 a.m., Thursday, August 19.  He had been ill since last November.

 

Martin Roidt was born at Stangelville, Feb. 8, 1884, as a young man he lived in Denmark, Wis. Following his marriage to Dora Watruba, he was a contractor in Denmark from 1910 to 1914. He then moved to a farm in the Town of Beaver, where he lived until eight years ago, when he retired and moved into the village of Riplinger.

He is survived by three sons, Richard, Willard, and Joseph, all of Milwaukee and one brother, Matt, of Stangelville. Mrs. Roidt died in 1930.  Also two sisters and one brother preceded him in death.

 

The Rev. King officiated at the funeral services and burial was in the parish cemetery. Pallbearers were Leo Shefchik, Ben Clouse, Ernest Miller, Charles Shefchik, John Widmore, and Lee Wisnosky.

 

Those from away who attended the funeral services were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Roidt and daughter, Deanna, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Roidt and sons, and Joe Roidt, Milwaukee; Matt Roidt and Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Riha, Stangelville; Leonard Roidt, Kewaunee; Joe and John Kunish, Pilsen; Miss Ann Cekan, Chicago; and Ed Weister and Mrs. Henry Weister, Marshfield.

 

 


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