Klenke
Ernest C. Klenke, 85, of 3908 Spring Hill Dr., Manitowoc, died Monday evening at Memorial Hospital, Manitowoc, resulting from a stroke suffered July 6, being hospitalized since that time.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, Manitowoc, the Rev. Edmund Olson officiating. Burial will be in Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Town of Kossuth.
Mr. Klenke was born July 1, 1879, at Scales Mound, Ill., son of the late Henry and Fredericka Smith Klenke. He married the former Christina Krueger June 4, 1910, at Two Rivers. They located at Manitowoc for a time, moving to Maribel in 1013 and returning to Manitowoc in 1918.
He was a telegraph operator and for 15 years he was a motorman on the old Higgins street car line between Manitowoc and Two Rivers, retiring from that line in 1923. He was a Metropolitan Life Insurance salesman for six years and then was employed at Wisconsin Fuel and Light Gas Co., for five years. Recently he helped operate the K&W Furniture Store on York Street with his son, Henry Klenke.
He is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias and of the St. Paul Church Men's Brotherhood. The couple celebrated its 50th wedding anniversary June 4, 1960.
Surviving are his wife; a son, Henry of Manitowoc; two daughters, Mrs. Daniel (Henrietta) Peppard and Mrs. John (Esther) Toomey, of Manitowoc; three sisters, Mrs. Louise Kailey and Mrs. Thurm Van Matre, of Freeport, Ill., and Mrs. Arthur Nordquist, of Rockford, Ill.; and eight grandchildren.
Two sisters, four brothers and two sons preceded him in death (one son, Ernest Klenke, dying in Brisbane, Australia, from war wounds received fighting in New Guinea).
Friends may call after 3 p.m. Wednesday at Urbanek and Schlei Funeral Home, Manitowoc, and from 11 a.m. Thursday at the church.
Manitowoc Herald Times
Tuesday, July 21, 1964 – Page 2
Ernest C. Klenke, 85, of 3908 Spring Hill Dr., Manitowoc, died Monday evening at Memorial Hospital, Manitowoc, resulting from a stroke suffered July 6, being hospitalized since that time.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, Manitowoc, the Rev. Edmund Olson officiating. Burial will be in Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Town of Kossuth.
Mr. Klenke was born July 1, 1879, at Scales Mound, Ill., son of the late Henry and Fredericka Smith Klenke. He married the former Christina Krueger June 4, 1910, at Two Rivers. They located at Manitowoc for a time, moving to Maribel in 1013 and returning to Manitowoc in 1918.
He was a telegraph operator and for 15 years he was a motorman on the old Higgins street car line between Manitowoc and Two Rivers, retiring from that line in 1923. He was a Metropolitan Life Insurance salesman for six years and then was employed at Wisconsin Fuel and Light Gas Co., for five years. Recently he helped operate the K&W Furniture Store on York Street with his son, Henry Klenke.
He is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias and of the St. Paul Church Men's Brotherhood. The couple celebrated its 50th wedding anniversary June 4, 1960.
Surviving are his wife; a son, Henry of Manitowoc; two daughters, Mrs. Daniel (Henrietta) Peppard and Mrs. John (Esther) Toomey, of Manitowoc; three sisters, Mrs. Louise Kailey and Mrs. Thurm Van Matre, of Freeport, Ill., and Mrs. Arthur Nordquist, of Rockford, Ill.; and eight grandchildren.
Two sisters, four brothers and two sons preceded him in death (one son, Ernest Klenke, dying in Brisbane, Australia, from war wounds received fighting in New Guinea).
Friends may call after 3 p.m. Wednesday at Urbanek and Schlei Funeral Home, Manitowoc, and from 11 a.m. Thursday at the church.
Manitowoc Herald Times
Tuesday, July 21, 1964 – Page 2
Klenke
Ernest C. Klenke, 85, of 3908 Spring Hill Dr., Manitowoc, died Monday evening at Memorial Hospital, Manitowoc, resulting from a stroke suffered July 6, being hospitalized since that time.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, Manitowoc, the Rev. Edmund Olson officiating. Burial will be in Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Town of Kossuth.
Mr. Klenke was born July 1, 1879, at Scales Mound, Ill., son of the late Henry and Fredericka Smith Klenke. He married the former Christina Krueger June 4, 1910, at Two Rivers. They located at Manitowoc for a time, moving to Maribel in 1013 and returning to Manitowoc in 1918.
He was a telegraph operator and for 15 years he was a motorman on the old Higgins street car line between Manitowoc and Two Rivers, retiring from that line in 1923. He was a Metropolitan Life Insurance salesman for six years and then was employed at Wisconsin Fuel and Light Gas Co., for five years. Recently he helped operate the K&W Furniture Store on York Street with his son, Henry Klenke.
He is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias and of the St. Paul Church Men's Brotherhood. The couple celebrated its 50th wedding anniversary June 4, 1960.
Surviving are his wife; a son, Henry of Manitowoc; two daughters, Mrs. Daniel (Henrietta) Peppard and Mrs. John (Esther) Toomey, of Manitowoc; three sisters, Mrs. Louise Kailey and Mrs. Thurm Van Matre, of Freeport, Ill., and Mrs. Arthur Nordquist, of Rockford, Ill.; and eight grandchildren.
Two sisters, four brothers and two sons preceded him in death (one son, Ernest Klenke, dying in Brisbane, Australia, from war wounds received fighting in New Guinea).
Friends may call after 3 p.m. Wednesday at Urbanek and Schlei Funeral Home, Manitowoc, and from 11 a.m. Thursday at the church.
Manitowoc Herald Times
Tuesday, July 21, 1964 – Page 2
Ernest C. Klenke, 85, of 3908 Spring Hill Dr., Manitowoc, died Monday evening at Memorial Hospital, Manitowoc, resulting from a stroke suffered July 6, being hospitalized since that time.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, Manitowoc, the Rev. Edmund Olson officiating. Burial will be in Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Town of Kossuth.
Mr. Klenke was born July 1, 1879, at Scales Mound, Ill., son of the late Henry and Fredericka Smith Klenke. He married the former Christina Krueger June 4, 1910, at Two Rivers. They located at Manitowoc for a time, moving to Maribel in 1013 and returning to Manitowoc in 1918.
He was a telegraph operator and for 15 years he was a motorman on the old Higgins street car line between Manitowoc and Two Rivers, retiring from that line in 1923. He was a Metropolitan Life Insurance salesman for six years and then was employed at Wisconsin Fuel and Light Gas Co., for five years. Recently he helped operate the K&W Furniture Store on York Street with his son, Henry Klenke.
He is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias and of the St. Paul Church Men's Brotherhood. The couple celebrated its 50th wedding anniversary June 4, 1960.
Surviving are his wife; a son, Henry of Manitowoc; two daughters, Mrs. Daniel (Henrietta) Peppard and Mrs. John (Esther) Toomey, of Manitowoc; three sisters, Mrs. Louise Kailey and Mrs. Thurm Van Matre, of Freeport, Ill., and Mrs. Arthur Nordquist, of Rockford, Ill.; and eight grandchildren.
Two sisters, four brothers and two sons preceded him in death (one son, Ernest Klenke, dying in Brisbane, Australia, from war wounds received fighting in New Guinea).
Friends may call after 3 p.m. Wednesday at Urbanek and Schlei Funeral Home, Manitowoc, and from 11 a.m. Thursday at the church.
Manitowoc Herald Times
Tuesday, July 21, 1964 – Page 2
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