DEATH COMES TO JOS. KOHLBECK AT CATO HOME
Retired Town Chairman Succumbs after Months Illness – Well Known in County Joseph Kohlbeck, lately retired chairman of the Town of Cato, passed away at his home there last night after a prolonged illness which followed an operation in April. Effects of the operation sapped his vitality and when cancer set in some time ago,little hope was held for recovery. Death came as a relief and was expected though a shock to many friends in the county.

Mr. Kohlbeck was forced to temporarily retire from the office of county supervisor when ill health set in. He had been Town Chairman for seven years and held other positions which made him widely known. For a number of years he was highway patrolman in his section of Cato.Born in Cato, the deceased spent his entire life there. He was 51 years of age, having been born February 1, 1876 and was married to Frances Vogel, who survives, twenty-eight years ago. He operated a farm outside of Cato at the time of his death.

Surviving besides his widow, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kohlbeck, four daughters, Mrs. J. Vogel of Cato, Mrs. John Stacch of Manitowoc Rapids and Marion and Dorothy at home; four sons, Frank of Sawyer and Joseph, Michael and Leo, all at home. Six brothers, Frank and Anton of Clarks Mills, George and Ferdinand of Cato and Louis and Joseph of Whitelaw, also remain as do two sisters, Mrs. Charles Denk and Mrs. Ed Brunner of Cato and seven grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 9 from the home and at 9:30 from St. Mary’s Church at Clarks Mills, the Rev. Father Darling officiating and burial will be made there. Mr. Kohlbeck was a member of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin and of the Holy Name Society.
Manitowoc Herald Times – Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1927
(Find A Grave contributor Kent Salomon)