Last Rites for Gustave Grabs Held Here Wednesday
Funeral services for Gustave Grabs, 87, were held yesterday. Wednesday, from the Meiselwitz Funeral Home. The Rev. E. L. Worthman was in charge. Burial was made in the Union cemetery.
Mr. Grabs died Sunday night at Holy Family hospital, Manitowoc. He had resided at Shady Lane home for the past four years.
He was born in Germany in 1868 and accompanied his father, William to Manitowoc county eight years later. They located in Schleswig. July 23, 1896 he married Miss Alice Grant. Mrs. Grabs died in 1931.
After farming in the town he operated a meat market and ice business in Kiel in the early 1890s. The couple observed their golden wedding in 1946.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Walter Schilling, New Holstein, and Mrs. Walter Vilberg, Chicago; a son Herbert, Monrovia, California, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
(no newspaper named, 8-18-1955)
From Manitowoc county marriage records:
Gustave John Carl Grabs and Ellise Grantt (Alice Grant) (v.6 p.362)
July 23, 1896 in religious ceremony, Town of Schleswig
Gustave John Carl Grabs
Son of Wilhelm Grabs and Henriette Schmid
Born Germany –butcher in Kiel
Ellise Grantt
Daughter of E. W. Grantt and Maggie Suhr
Born Kiel
Witnesses Paul E. Grabs and Clara Hiller
Funeral services for Gustave Grabs, 87, were held yesterday. Wednesday, from the Meiselwitz Funeral Home. The Rev. E. L. Worthman was in charge. Burial was made in the Union cemetery.
Mr. Grabs died Sunday night at Holy Family hospital, Manitowoc. He had resided at Shady Lane home for the past four years.
He was born in Germany in 1868 and accompanied his father, William to Manitowoc county eight years later. They located in Schleswig. July 23, 1896 he married Miss Alice Grant. Mrs. Grabs died in 1931.
After farming in the town he operated a meat market and ice business in Kiel in the early 1890s. The couple observed their golden wedding in 1946.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Walter Schilling, New Holstein, and Mrs. Walter Vilberg, Chicago; a son Herbert, Monrovia, California, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
(no newspaper named, 8-18-1955)
From Manitowoc county marriage records:
Gustave John Carl Grabs and Ellise Grantt (Alice Grant) (v.6 p.362)
July 23, 1896 in religious ceremony, Town of Schleswig
Gustave John Carl Grabs
Son of Wilhelm Grabs and Henriette Schmid
Born Germany –butcher in Kiel
Ellise Grantt
Daughter of E. W. Grantt and Maggie Suhr
Born Kiel
Witnesses Paul E. Grabs and Clara Hiller
Last Rites for Gustave Grabs Held Here Wednesday
Funeral services for Gustave Grabs, 87, were held yesterday. Wednesday, from the Meiselwitz Funeral Home. The Rev. E. L. Worthman was in charge. Burial was made in the Union cemetery.
Mr. Grabs died Sunday night at Holy Family hospital, Manitowoc. He had resided at Shady Lane home for the past four years.
He was born in Germany in 1868 and accompanied his father, William to Manitowoc county eight years later. They located in Schleswig. July 23, 1896 he married Miss Alice Grant. Mrs. Grabs died in 1931.
After farming in the town he operated a meat market and ice business in Kiel in the early 1890s. The couple observed their golden wedding in 1946.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Walter Schilling, New Holstein, and Mrs. Walter Vilberg, Chicago; a son Herbert, Monrovia, California, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
(no newspaper named, 8-18-1955)
From Manitowoc county marriage records:
Gustave John Carl Grabs and Ellise Grantt (Alice Grant) (v.6 p.362)
July 23, 1896 in religious ceremony, Town of Schleswig
Gustave John Carl Grabs
Son of Wilhelm Grabs and Henriette Schmid
Born Germany –butcher in Kiel
Ellise Grantt
Daughter of E. W. Grantt and Maggie Suhr
Born Kiel
Witnesses Paul E. Grabs and Clara Hiller
Funeral services for Gustave Grabs, 87, were held yesterday. Wednesday, from the Meiselwitz Funeral Home. The Rev. E. L. Worthman was in charge. Burial was made in the Union cemetery.
Mr. Grabs died Sunday night at Holy Family hospital, Manitowoc. He had resided at Shady Lane home for the past four years.
He was born in Germany in 1868 and accompanied his father, William to Manitowoc county eight years later. They located in Schleswig. July 23, 1896 he married Miss Alice Grant. Mrs. Grabs died in 1931.
After farming in the town he operated a meat market and ice business in Kiel in the early 1890s. The couple observed their golden wedding in 1946.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Walter Schilling, New Holstein, and Mrs. Walter Vilberg, Chicago; a son Herbert, Monrovia, California, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
(no newspaper named, 8-18-1955)
From Manitowoc county marriage records:
Gustave John Carl Grabs and Ellise Grantt (Alice Grant) (v.6 p.362)
July 23, 1896 in religious ceremony, Town of Schleswig
Gustave John Carl Grabs
Son of Wilhelm Grabs and Henriette Schmid
Born Germany –butcher in Kiel
Ellise Grantt
Daughter of E. W. Grantt and Maggie Suhr
Born Kiel
Witnesses Paul E. Grabs and Clara Hiller
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