Obit: Sternitzky, Edwin E. #2 (1910 - 1991)

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Surnames: STERNITZKY BIERMANN OSWALD NEMITZ MARTIN SCHLINSOG HILLERT KALSOW

----Sources: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., Wis.) 01/03/1991

Sternitzky, Edwin E. (25 Sept. 1910 - 1 Jan. 1991)

Granton - Services for Edwin E. Sternitzky, 80, of 1017 Laurel St., formerly of Granton, who died at 8:21 p.m. Tuesday in the Emergency Room of St. Joseph’s Hospital of injuries suffered in an automobile accident, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church, Granton.

The Revs. Herbert L. Biermann and Arthur A. Oswald of Grafton will officiate. Mrs. Sharon Nemitz will be the organist, and Mrs. Jill Martin will be the soloist. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be grandsons, Jeffrey, Jay and Jim Schlinsog and Mark and Matthew Sternitzky, and a nephew, Ernst Sternitzky.

Visitation will be at Rembs-Kundinger Chapel, Marshfield, at 7 p.m. Friday and then at the church from 10 a.m. until service time Saturday.

He was born Sept. 25, 1910, in the town of Lynn, Clark County, to Edward and Elizabeth (Hillert) Sternitzky. He attended Sunbeam School in the town of Lynn.

He married Leona A. Kalsow Oct. 11, 1936, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Neillsville, Wis. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1986.

He farmed in the town of Lynn his entire life. While farming, he was also employed by Roddis Plywood Corp., now Weyerhaeuser Co., for 18 years. He and his wife moved to Marshfield in May 1990.

He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church.

He is survived by his wife; two sons, Allen E. of Marshfield and Gary of Granton; one daughter, Mrs. Marvin (Ann) Schlinsog of Marshfield; a twin brother, Erwin Sternitzky of Granton; and 11 granchildren.

He was predeceased by his parents, two brothers and one granddaughter, Maria Sternitzky, on June 12, 1990.