Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Hansen Funeral Chapel for Otto Jahnke, 88, of route 2, Marshfield, who died of age complications Monday afternoon at the Wolf Nursing Home at Bethel, where he had been a patient the past week The Rev. G. M. Krueger, pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, will officiate and burial will be made in a family plot in Gate of Heaven cemetery.
The body is reposing at the Hansen Funeral Home.
Mr. Jahnke was born in Chicago, Ill., on June 29, 1871. He came to Bakerville and received his education there. After living in Brillion a short time he farmed in the town of Lincoln and then came to Marshfield in 1900 and had lived here since, doing carpenter work.
He married Lena Gessert in 1906 at Bakerville. She preceded him in death May 21, 1928.
He is survived by two sons, Raymond, route 2, Marshfield; Melvin, West Allis; three daughters, Mrs. Agnes Rude, Milwaukee; Mrs. William (Elizabeth) Sommers, Marshfield; Mrs. Louis (Delores) Gehrke, Two Rivers; 14 grandchildren; three brothers, Anthony, Robert, both of Milwaukee; Fred, Marshfield; three sisters, Mrs. Bertha Kohl, Milwaukee; Mrs. Axel (Emma) Jensen, Lake Worth, Fla.; Mrs. Al (Sophie) Davies, New Castle, Ind.
One brother and two sisters preceded him in death.
Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald, Tuesday, May 5, 1959
The body is reposing at the Hansen Funeral Home.
Mr. Jahnke was born in Chicago, Ill., on June 29, 1871. He came to Bakerville and received his education there. After living in Brillion a short time he farmed in the town of Lincoln and then came to Marshfield in 1900 and had lived here since, doing carpenter work.
He married Lena Gessert in 1906 at Bakerville. She preceded him in death May 21, 1928.
He is survived by two sons, Raymond, route 2, Marshfield; Melvin, West Allis; three daughters, Mrs. Agnes Rude, Milwaukee; Mrs. William (Elizabeth) Sommers, Marshfield; Mrs. Louis (Delores) Gehrke, Two Rivers; 14 grandchildren; three brothers, Anthony, Robert, both of Milwaukee; Fred, Marshfield; three sisters, Mrs. Bertha Kohl, Milwaukee; Mrs. Axel (Emma) Jensen, Lake Worth, Fla.; Mrs. Al (Sophie) Davies, New Castle, Ind.
One brother and two sisters preceded him in death.
Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald, Tuesday, May 5, 1959
Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Hansen Funeral Chapel for Otto Jahnke, 88, of route 2, Marshfield, who died of age complications Monday afternoon at the Wolf Nursing Home at Bethel, where he had been a patient the past week The Rev. G. M. Krueger, pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, will officiate and burial will be made in a family plot in Gate of Heaven cemetery.
The body is reposing at the Hansen Funeral Home.
Mr. Jahnke was born in Chicago, Ill., on June 29, 1871. He came to Bakerville and received his education there. After living in Brillion a short time he farmed in the town of Lincoln and then came to Marshfield in 1900 and had lived here since, doing carpenter work.
He married Lena Gessert in 1906 at Bakerville. She preceded him in death May 21, 1928.
He is survived by two sons, Raymond, route 2, Marshfield; Melvin, West Allis; three daughters, Mrs. Agnes Rude, Milwaukee; Mrs. William (Elizabeth) Sommers, Marshfield; Mrs. Louis (Delores) Gehrke, Two Rivers; 14 grandchildren; three brothers, Anthony, Robert, both of Milwaukee; Fred, Marshfield; three sisters, Mrs. Bertha Kohl, Milwaukee; Mrs. Axel (Emma) Jensen, Lake Worth, Fla.; Mrs. Al (Sophie) Davies, New Castle, Ind.
One brother and two sisters preceded him in death.
Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald, Tuesday, May 5, 1959
The body is reposing at the Hansen Funeral Home.
Mr. Jahnke was born in Chicago, Ill., on June 29, 1871. He came to Bakerville and received his education there. After living in Brillion a short time he farmed in the town of Lincoln and then came to Marshfield in 1900 and had lived here since, doing carpenter work.
He married Lena Gessert in 1906 at Bakerville. She preceded him in death May 21, 1928.
He is survived by two sons, Raymond, route 2, Marshfield; Melvin, West Allis; three daughters, Mrs. Agnes Rude, Milwaukee; Mrs. William (Elizabeth) Sommers, Marshfield; Mrs. Louis (Delores) Gehrke, Two Rivers; 14 grandchildren; three brothers, Anthony, Robert, both of Milwaukee; Fred, Marshfield; three sisters, Mrs. Bertha Kohl, Milwaukee; Mrs. Axel (Emma) Jensen, Lake Worth, Fla.; Mrs. Al (Sophie) Davies, New Castle, Ind.
One brother and two sisters preceded him in death.
Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald, Tuesday, May 5, 1959
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