Mrs. Rose A. Lorfeld, age 93, a former Village of Cleveland resident, passed away Thursday, Feb. 4, 1988 at Greendale Health Care Center in Sheboygan where she had been a resident since 1980.

She was born April 22, 1894 in the Town of Mosel. She was a daughter of the late Otto and Emilie Fisher Wippermann. On April 9, 1916 she was united in marriage to Walter E. Lorfeld of the Town of Meeme and the couple resided in Osman where they engaged in farming. Mr. Lorfeld preceded her in death in October, 1941. She moved to Cleveland in 1945 where she remained living until she moved to the Greendale Health Care Center in 1980. She had been a member of St. John and St. Peter Ev. Lutheran Church at Cleveland, its Ladies Aid Society and the church choir.

Survivors are her daughter, Mrs. David Booth of Tucson, Arizona; two grandsons, John and James Stevenson of Tucson; one grand-daughter, Miss Roberta Stevenson of Yuma, Arizona; three sisters, Mrs. Arthur Lorfeld, Cleveland, Mrs. Ervin Valenstein of Howards Grove, Mrs. Elmer Knoener of Sheboygan; two brothers, Harold Wippermann of Cleveland and Milton Wippermann of Sheboygan Falls.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday afternoon at the Stoltenberg Funeral Chapels in Cleveland. The Rev. Henry S. Koch, pastor of St. John and St. Peter Ev. Lutheran Church in Cleveland, will officiate. Burial will be at St. James United Church of Christ Cemetery in Spring Valley. Friends may call at the Stoltenberg Funeral Chapels Sunday afternoon from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. A memorial fund in Mrs. Lorfeld's name has been established for St. John and St. Peter Ev. Lutheran Church in Cleveland and St. James United Church of Christ in Spring Valley.
- Published in the Sheboygan Press, February 5, 1988.
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