ESTHER H. O'NEIL

(1900 • 1992)

Esther H. O'Neil, age 91, formerly of 1123 Washington Ave., Cleveland, Wis., died Sunday morning, January 12, 1992 at the Willowdale Nursing Home at New Holstein, Wis.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the St. John's-St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cleveland. Officiating the service will be the Rev. Henry Koch with burial to follow in the Evergreen Cemetery, Manitowoc.

She was born February 6, 1900 in the town of Centerville, Manitowoc County, daughter of the late August and Ida Roehl Fischer. She attended schools in Centerville and was a graduate of the Terry Dressmaking College of Detroit, Mich. in Sheboygan, Wis., in 1918. She then married Frank R. O'Neil on November 14, 1931 at the St. John's-St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cleveland. The couple farmed in the town of Liberty, near Osman, on the O'Neil Homestead until retirement in 1971. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1981 and Mr. O'Neil preceded her in death on December 25, 1984. She was a charter member of the Pine River Hustlers Homemakers and the Cleveland Senior Citizens.

Survivors include special cousins, Melvin and Kathryn Jaehnig of Cleveland; special friends, Donald and Marilyn Hammel of Newton. Also surviving are many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Irene, and a son, Robert, both at infancy and a brother, Alfred Fischer.

Friends may call at the Pfeffer Funeral Home on Tuesday from 4 until 8 p.m. and Wednesday at the St. John's-St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church from 12:30 p.m. until the time of service.

Herald Times Reporter, Manitowoc, Wis., January 13, 1992, p. B8

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Notes from Cleveland

Miss Esther Fischer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Fischer, Newton route 1, became the bride of Frank O'Neil Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank O'Neil Sr., at a mid afternoon wedding ceremony conducted by the Rev. Philip Sprengling at the St. Peter and John Lutheran church, Cleveland, Saturday. The attendants were the Misses Florence Meyer, Ethel O'Neil and Marcella Guetenberg and Alfred Fischer and Gilman Wunsch. A wedding supper was served at the home of the bride's parents. The couple will return from a wedding trip to Chicago to make their home on the groom's farm in the Town of Liberty.

Manitowoc Pilot, Wis., Thursday, November 19, 1931

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