Rites Held Saturday For Mrs. Gustave Grabs
Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon for Mrs. Gustave Grabs, 87, at the Meiselwitz Funeral home. The Rev. E. L. Worthman was in charge of the services.
Burial was made in the Union cemetery. Mrs. Grabs died Thursday at a Manitowoc hospital.
Pallbearers were Henry Bong, William Happel, Melvin Happel,
Robert Kelm, Howard Grabs and Clifford Schilling. The Misses Patricia Tollmann and Sandra Steinhardt sang several numbers.
Mrs. Grabs was born Alice Grant in 1867 in Schleswig, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Grant, and in 1895 was married to Gustave Grabs. They located in Kiel and later moved to a farm in Schleswig. Twenty-five years ago they returned to Kiel.
The couple observed their golden wedding in 1945.
Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Walter Schilling of New Holstein and Mrs Walter Vilberg of Chicago, a son, Herbert of Altadena, California; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Irwin of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Mrs. Nellie Marquardt of Kiel; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Rites Held Saturday For Mrs. Gustave Grabs
Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon for Mrs. Gustave Grabs, 87, at the Meiselwitz Funeral home. The Rev. E. L. Worthman was in charge of the services.
Burial was made in the Union cemetery. Mrs. Grabs died Thursday at a Manitowoc hospital.
Pallbearers were Henry Bong, William Happel, Melvin Happel,
Robert Kelm, Howard Grabs and Clifford Schilling. The Misses Patricia Tollmann and Sandra Steinhardt sang several numbers.
Mrs. Grabs was born Alice Grant in 1867 in Schleswig, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Grant, and in 1895 was married to Gustave Grabs. They located in Kiel and later moved to a farm in Schleswig. Twenty-five years ago they returned to Kiel.
The couple observed their golden wedding in 1945.
Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Walter Schilling of New Holstein and Mrs Walter Vilberg of Chicago, a son, Herbert of Altadena, California; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Irwin of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Mrs. Nellie Marquardt of Kiel; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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