Miss Mary Goeler, 82, of 710 Lowell St., Two Rivers, died Saturday afternoon
at Two Rivers Municipal Hospital. She had been in failing health for several
months. Miss Goeler had operated a women’s ready-to-wear store on Washington
Street for 38 years until retiring May 1, 1965.
Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Klein & Stangel Inc., Funeral
Home and at 10 a.m. at St. Mark Catholic Church, Two Rivers. The Rev. George
Beth will officiate and burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.
Miss Goeler was born Nov. 2, 1883, at Chicago, daughter of the late Michael
and Catherine Trossen Goeler. When she was three the family brought her to Two
Rivers where her father, learning the tailoring trade in Germany, pursued the
tailoring activity at Two Rivers. Miss Goeler was the oldest of the seven
children in the Goeler family.
In the women’s ready-to-wear business for 53 years, Miss Goeler started to work
at the old Two Rivers Mercantile Co. at Two Rivers in 1912, where she remained
for 15 years. In 1927, when the Mercantile firm, owned by a Two Rivers stock-
holding organization, sold out to the former Ott-Glich Co., she opened the store
bearing her name in the Empire Block.
One of the oldest members of the Two Rivers Chamber of Commerce in which she
continued her affiliation after retirement last spring, Miss Goeler was also a
member of the Two Rivers Ladies Charitable Assn.
Surviving are three sisters, Miss Susan, at home, Mrs. Catherine Peth, of Chicago,
and Sister Aquinata of Crown Point, Ind., teaching school as a member of the
Agnesian Order, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at the funeral home where the Rosary will be recited at 8 o’clock
this Monday evening.
Manitowoc Herald Times, February 7, 1966 P.9
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(b. 2 Nov. 1883/d. Feb. 1966/SSDI)