THE WINONA DAILY NEWS, WINONA, MINNESOTA MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1954 The Daily Record: Two-State Deaths Winona Deaths CHATFIELD. Minn. (Special)Mrs. Sarah Jane Lillie, 85, who lived in this community until four years ago, died Saturday morning at St. nada Mary's Hospital, Rochester.
She been a patient there a week. Mrs. was born Jan. 17, 1869, in Hillira Township. She was the former Sarah Gilchrist before being married to Leon Lillie Dec.
20, 1894 in Chatfield. Survivors are: A son, Theodore, North St. Paul; two daughters, Mrs. Walter Engle, Rochester, Mrs. M.
R. Finley, North St. Paul: four grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren, and two Fred, Winona, and William, Jamestown, N. D. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.
Tuesday at the Pioneer Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Charles H. Dierenfield officiating. Burial will be in the Chatfield Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Raymond, Darrell and Leon Gilchrist, Floyd Lillie, Warren Hess and Richard Engle.
Friends may call at the Boetzer Funeral Home until 1 p.m. Tuesday, and at the church until time of service. Mrs. S. R.
Severson PETERSON, Minn. (Special)- Mrs. S. R. Severson, 81, a resident of the Peterson area six years ago, died of a heart ailment Saturday night at the Methodist Hospital, Rochester.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Grace Lutheran Church, the Rev. I. Z. Hyland, Grace officiating.
Cemetery. Burial will be Born in Peterson March 28, 1873; she was the former Miss Gena Smaby. She was married to S.R. Severson here Jan. 31, 1911.
He died in 1947, and a son also is dead. Surviving are: A daughter, Mrs. Roald (Julia) Finanger, Rochester: a brother, N. J. Smaby, Rushford, four nephews and a niece.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Lillie Mrs. Herman Welsch Funeral services for Mrs. Herman Welsch, 200 Harvester were conducted a.m. today at St.
Mary's Catholic Church, the Rev. Harry Jewison officiating. Burial was in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Fountain City, where the Rev. Leo Lang officiated.
Pallbearers were Arthur, Lambert and Hubert Tulius, Chauncey Kline, Roman Losinski and Richard Brom. Ignatius J. Kosidowski Funeral services for Ignatius J. Kosidowski, 152 Mankato were conducted at 9 a.m. today at St.
Stanislaus Catholic Church, the Rt. Rev. N. F. Grulkowski officiatBurial was in St.
Mary's Catholic, Cemetery. Pallbearers were John, Thomas, Duane and Robert Kosidowski and Frank and Martin Kujak. Charles H. Crouse Charles H. Crouse, 104, Minneapolis, died in that city Friday.
Mr. Crouse's wife, the former Jessie Stevens, was formerly of Rushford, and a cousin of Mrs. Roscoe Horton of Winona. Mrs. Crouse died in 1950.
Crouse was a CMST.P&P Rd. freight agent in Minneapolis until his retirement in 1936. He was born in Detroit, Mich. Survivors are one son, Prof. C.
Stevens Crouse, head of the mining and metallurgy department of the university of Kentucky, Lexington, one sister, Mrs. Anna Dawson, and two great-granddaughters. Funeral services will be in Minneapolis Tuesday morning. Graveside services will be in Woodlawn Cemetery here at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Marquis H. Hendricks, Funeral services for Marquis H. Hendricks, 615 Washington will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Fawcett-Abraham Chapel, Dr. Truman W.
Potter of Central Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be Woodlawn Cemetery where the Odd Fellows will be in charge of services. Friends may call at the chapel after 7 p.m. today. Niels P.
Skow Niels P. Skow, 76, 512 Main died the Winona General Hospital at 4:45 a.m. today after an illness of several months. He was born April 9, 1878, in Denmark, and came to Winona from there when three. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and was a stationary engineer.
Survivors are one daughter, Doris, at home, and three sisters, Mrs. Anna Pickart and Mrs. William (Bertha) Boentges, Winona, and Mrs. George (Elsie) Ewert, Chicago. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m.
at the Breitlow Funeral Home, the Rev. Gordon M. Wendland of the Evangelical MONDAY DECEMBER 6, 1954 At Winona General Hospital SATURDAY Admissions Daniel Becker, Rollingstone Rt. Mrs. Frances Wood, 370 E.
Broadway. James Stiles, 1781 W. Wabasha St. Births Mr. and Mrs.
Del Schneider, 471 E. 5th a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sievers, 301 E.
King a daughter. Discharges Laurie Sue Perkins, Fountain City, Wis. Miss Maude Maloney, Lewiston. Mrs. Merna Wilber, Trempealeau, Wis.
Harold Neitzke, Osseo, Wis. Mrs. Frank Rymarkiewicz, Gilmore Ave. Mrs. R.
J. Baylon and baby, E. 5th St. Mrs. Jerald Munighan, 1771 W.
Wabasha St. Mrs. Walter Haeussinger and baby, 1102 Marian St. Steven Michael Koch, McBride St. Mrs.
Mabel Hanson, 513 Winona St. Mrs. Edwin Fletcher and baby, 576 W. King St. Mrs.
Casimer Mayzek, 928 E. 5th St. Baby boy and girl Waters, 362 E. 5th St. Baby boy Orlowski, 555 Huff St.
Mrs. George Schneider and baby, 227 W. Howard St. SUNDAY Births Mr. and Mrs.
James Himli, 1279 W. 2nd a son, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Burfeind, A Arcadia, a son. Mr.
and Mrs. Ronald Turner, 1680 Kraemer a son. Mr. and Mrs. John Kautz, Elba, twins, a son, and a daughter.
Discharges Mrs. Norman Barth, 525 Grand St. Mrs. Robert Johnson, Winona Rt. 2.
Mrs. Margaret Bambenek, 466 High Forest St. William Husman, Lamoille. Mrs. Paul Thill and baby, Trempealeau, Wis.
Mrs. Charles Maybury, 215 W. 5th St. Mrs. Richard Tews and baby, Winona Rt.
1. OTHER BIRTHS PLAINVIEW, Minn. (Special) Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Kruger, a daughter Nov.
29 at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Wabasha. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Schouweiler, a son Nov.
30 at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Mrs. Schouweiler is an aunt of Mrs. Kruger.
ed Brethren Church officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Friends may call at the Breitlow Funeral Home Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. Municipal Court Larry Hewes, Minneapolis, forfeited a $10 deposit on a charge of operating a motor vehicle with an expired drivers license. He was arrested by the Minnesota' Highway Patrol on Highway 61 at 8:45 p.m.
Nov. 17. Ralph Parish, 20, Minneapolis, forfeited a $15 deposit on a charge of driving 45 miles an hour in a 30-mile-an-hour zone on Highway 61 through Homer. He was arrested by the patrol at 9:35 p.m. Friday.
Herman Cervan, 26, Rochester, forfeited a $15 deposit on a charge of driving 45 miles an hour in a 30-mile-an-hour zone on Highway 14. The arrest was made by the patrol at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6. Josephine Rossin, Whalan, paid a $10 fine after pleading guilty to a charge of driving without a license.
She was arrested by the patrol on Highway 61 at 1:45 a.m. Saturday. Frances Erpelding, 22, Winona Rt. 1, paid a $20 fine after pleading guilty to a charge of driving 45 miles an hour in a 30-milean-hour zone on Highway 61. The arrest was made by the patrol at 1:05 a.m.
Sunday. Parking deposits of $1 were forfeited by Loren W. Torgerson, Dr. R. H.
Wilson, Jack Krage Raymond Swanson and W. Swedberg, for meter violations; George Vatter (on two counts), B. W. Stockhausen and E. H.
Hazelton, for overtime parking; Raymond Jennison, for improper parking; Mrs. Lottie Vierus, for parking on the wrong side of the street; Albert Kujak, for parking in a no-parking zone, and Charles Brand, for parking in a snow-removal zone. Weather TEMPERATURES ELSEWHERE High Low Prec. Duluth 20 5 Mpls-St. 26 6 Chicago 39 27 Des Moines 36 15 Los Angeles 63 49 Miami 73 66 New Orleans 78 46 03 New York 44 22 Washington 49 23 Winnipeg 16 8 DAILY RIVER BULLETIN Flood Stage 24-hr.
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Wis. (Special) Herman Ekern, 81, a native of Trempealeau County who became prominent in Wisconsin political life and wrote the World War I servicemen's insurance law, died Saturday night at his home in Madison after a lingering: illness. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Bethel Lutheran Church, Madison. He had been a member of the church since 1909.
Ekern was born on a farm near Pigeon Falls Dec. 27, 1872, the son, of Mr. and Mrs. Even Ekern. Following grade and high school he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin and received his law degree in 1894.
The following year he was elected district attorney of Trempealeau County. Married Whitehall Girl In 1899 he married Miss Lily C. Anderson, eldest daughter of the late Judge H. A. Anderson, Whitehall.
In the 1903, 1905 and 1907 state Legislatures he served as assemblyman from Trempealeau County, and was speaker of the lower house during the last session. From 1909 to 1914 Ekern was in partnership with 0. J. Eggum of Whitehall in the practice of law. He and his wife moved to Madison in 1909.
Ekern was named assistant insurance commissioner and later, as an elective official, served as insurance commissioner from 1911 to 1915. In 1915, he formed a nership with his law school classmate, Erwin A. Meyers, Evansville, to establish an office in Chi- FRANK's the KRAUT Difference! QUALITY BEST GRADE FANCY! cago where they specialized in insurance law. The firm was dissolved about three Ekern drafted the soldiers' and sailors' war risk insurance act which Congress adopted shortly after the outbreak of World War I. He also co-authored the Wisconsin state teachers' retirement act and the federal railroad retirement act and participated in Charles Evans Hughes' investigation of New York insurance companies.
In Madison Firm For the past four years he had been associated with the Madison law firm Ekern, Naujoks Ekern. He also was one of the organizers and for many years general counsel of the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Bloomington, Ill. He had a major part in creation of the present National Fraternal Congress through a 1913 merger of two fraternal groups. It was at the personal request of Robert La Follette that Ekern ran for Wisconsin attorney general, an office he held from 1923 to 1927. In 1924, he was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Cleveland.
Ekern served as a member of the Wisconsin deep waterways commission Candidate for Senate Gov. Philip F. La Follette named him lieutenant governor in May 1938 to fill out a term, and in 1938 he was the Progressive party nominee for U. Senate. Since 1917, Ekern had been identified with the Lutheran Brotherhood, an insurance company which he helped organize with J.
A. 0. Preus, at that time state auditor and a former Minnesota governor. He was president of the insurance company from 1929 until his resig- KELLY Funeral Service Funeral Director and Embalmer CAREFUL, CONSCIENTIOUS SERVICE Wisconsin and Minnesola License LADY ATTENDANT 227 East Third Street TELEPHONE 4117. A nation in member 1951 of due to the failing health.
American, Wisconsin and Illinois Bar associations, he was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of laws by the University Wisconsin in 1944 after serving as a regent from 1939 to 1943. He also received honorary law degrees from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, and Thiel College, Greenville. Pa. Ekern is survived by his wife; four daughters, Mrs. William G.
Fisher and Mrs. Horace H. Ratcliff, both of Minneapolis, and Mrs. Winfield V. Alexander and Miss Dorothy Ekern, both of Madison: two sons.
John, Washington, D.C., and George, Lake Bluff, Ill. The heart of a mouse beats from 500 to 1,000 times a minute. Woman Jumps Off Minneapolis Bridge MINNEAPOLIS (R- A middleaged woman jumped to her death from the Lake Street Mississippi River bridge today after carefully leaving a black purse containing a social security card on the cross walk. Police said the card carried the name of Mrs. Helen Nordstrom, and a suburban address, 6845 Upton Ave, Richfield.
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Free 'BONUS LONG Wisconsin Russet SMOOTH POTATOES For For For Frying Baking Boiling Bag 100-Lb. $1.98 Mrs. Ivan Deneff ALMA, Wis. (Special)- Funeral services for Mrs. Ivan Deneff, 55, who died Saturday morning, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m.
at the Stohr chapel, the Rev. Milton Siewert of the Evangelical United Brethren Church officiating. Burial will be at Platteville, ThursdaDeneff, the former Grace Wonack, was born Dec. 24, 1898, in Platteville where she married and resided for a time. About 19 years ago the family moved here.
She had been in poor health for several years and had been at a La Crosse hospital the past 10 weeks. Survivors include: Her husband; a daughter, Mrs. Arnold (Julie Ann) Schmidt, Buffalo City; four sons, James, Buffalo, City; Ivan Rockford, twins, Delvan, Alma, and Delbert, Detroit, seven grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Emma Frazier, and a brother, Lee, both of Platteville. O.
M. Nelson MONDOVI, services Wis: 0. Specialson 64, Mondovi businessman for 30 years, will be held Wednesday at the Colby Hemer Funeral Home and at 2 p.m. at the South Beef River Church near Osseo, the Rev. E.
B. Christopherson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery where the Johnson-Dillon American Legion Post 154 will conduct graveside rites. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Tuesday. Nelson died at his home here Sunday.
Born near Northfield in Jackson County, he moved with his parents to Osseo when he was 7 and resided there until entering the armed forces in World War I. He moved to Mondovi in 1924 and purchased the Kochendorfer Meat Market. He- had been in business continuously since that time and had recently operated a tavern. In 1926 he married Miss Adele Johnson at Minneapolis. She survives as do brothers, Edward, Hixton, and Louis, Blair, and two sisters, Mrs.
Julius Olson and Mrs. Philip Johnson, both of Osseo. Louis Dove GALESVILLE, Wis. (Special)Louis Dove, 59, died at the Wood Veteran's Hospital, Milwaukee, Saturday. He had been a patient there several weeks.
Dove was a veteran of World War I. The Rowles-McBride American Legion Post 103 will be in charge of military honors at the funeral. Survivors are a son, Merlin, U.S. Army, and a daughter Mrs. Bernard (Zona) Sampson, Fountain City.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Smith Funeral Home, the Rev. H. A. Wisner officiating.
Burial will be in Pine Cliff Cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary Tuesday evening. John L. Anderson ARCADIA, Wis. -Funeral services for John L.
Anderson, 65, who died Sunday at the home of a brother, Gilbert Anderson, will be held Wednesday at the WiemerKillian Funeral Home at 1 p.m., the Rev. George F. Muedeking officiating, and at 2 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church, Blair, the Rev. K.
M. Urberg officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until the time of service. Anderson had been employed in Minneapolis until taken ill three weeks ago.
He was a patient at St. Joseph's Hospital until Saturday. Surviving are: Two brothers, Gilbert, Arcadia, and Edwin, Blair; sisters, Mrs. Joseph (Lucy) a wlik, Arcadia, and Mrs. George (Anna) Dahm, La Crosse, 20 nieces and nephews.
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