Beloved Mother of E. A. Wallace;

Loving Wife of Carl Hobson Wallace;

Cherished Daughter of Henry Graf and Elizabeth Netcher Graf;

Sister and Friend of Leo, Pearl, Marion, Lucille and LeRoy Graf;

Granddaughter of Peter and Anna Schuster Netcher and Christian and Louisa Schultz Graf.

Loved and admired by all of her Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, In-Laws and every friend she ever made.

.....Gone much too soon....


BIO:
LAURA MARGARET GRAF was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin on the third of June in 1896 to Henry and Elizabeth Netcher Graf in the house built by her father, Henry, a Carpenter. She loved music and took piano lessons on the family piano in the front parlor of the Graf home on Maxwell Street in Baraboo. Laura was the third of four daughters, with an older and a younger brother. She remained close to her parents and all of her sisters and her brothers throughout her short lifetime. When she finished high school, she went to work as an Operator for the Telephone Company and later met her future husband, Carl Hobson Wallace, when he came to do a job for the Phone Company. Laura married Carl in 1920 in St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Baraboo and the couple moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Carl was working another job for the Telephone Company and Western Electric Company. The following year, they added to their little family.
Laura had Asthma all of her life, so Carl accepted a transfer to warmer, dryer climates in the western United States; they lived in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and finally settled in Los Angeles, California.
Laura loved flowers and plants and would often be found at work in her gardens in every town in which they lived. She also built lasting friendships within her new communities, as well as maintaining her Wisconsin friendships and relationships with her siblings. Laura doted on her only child and they were the best of friends, frequently traveling by train across the country for Laura to be able to care for her Mother, Lizzy Graf, during her Mother's lengthy illness. Laura and child also traveled together by train to Chicago for the World's Fair in 1933, staying with family and friends in that city. Back home in Los Angeles, Laura and child often went shopping and to movies together and would travel by trolley; on one of their shopping excursions, Laura fell when departing the trolley and broke her hip; she would spend the next three months in the hospital and additional months at home on crutches while her body healed. Not long after that incident, Laura's health deteriorated and only two days before her 44th birthday, she slipped away; her husband, Carl, child and sister Marion were with her.

Laura was brought back home to Baraboo to be buried with her Mother and Father in St. Joseph's Cemetery in the GRAF and NETCHER Family Plot. St. Joseph's Catholic Church was filled to capacity for the funeral of this local home-town girl.