Obit: Draheim, Adela #2 (1888 – 1965)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Draheim, Vater, Youmns, Knuth

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 02 Dec 1965

Draheim, Adela (7 FEB 1888 – 26 NOV 1965)

Note: First name taken from Green Grove (St. Paul’s) Cemetery listing

Funeral services for Mrs. William Draheim, rural Owen (Clark Co., Wis.), were conducted from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home at two o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 30. Rev Pietrau of Racine officiated at the final rites, with burial being made at St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Green Grove.

Pallbearers were Harry, Norman and Arvin Liebzeit, Theodore and Karl Jensen and John Ericksmoen.

Mrs. Draheim, who was 77 years of age, passed away at 8:55 p.m., Friday, Nov. 26, 1965 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield. She was born Feb. 7, 1888 in the town of Rantoul, Calumet Co., Wis. On June 10, 1908 she and William Draheim exchanged wedding vows in a ceremony performed in the town of Eaton Church, Manitowoc County. Later that same year they moved to Clark County, settling on a farm in the town of Beaver, where they resided until 1922. They then moved to a farm in the town of Longwood, southwest of Withee, where they have since resided.

Her passing is mourned by her husband, William; a son, Walter, of rural Owen; two daughters, Mrs. Carl (Anita) Vater, rural Withee, and Mrs. Elmer (Irene) Youmans, Minneapolis; a sister, Elsie Knuth, Milwaukee, and a brother, Herman Knuth, Howard Grove; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.