Obit: Frese, Minerva #2 (1871 - 1953)
Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Frese Jewett, Mattes

----Source: Thorp Courier (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 06/11/1953

Frese, Minerva #2 (4 FEB 1871 - 31 MAY 1953)

Mrs. Minerva Frese of the town of Reseburg (Clark Co., Wis.), passed away of old age infirmities on Sunday, May 31, 1953. She had reached the age of 82 years. The deceased was born in Ionia, Ill., Feb. 4, 1871. She came to Thorp with her parents 70 years ago and resided on a farm near here.

On May 31, 1893 she was united in marriage to John Frese, who passed away at Thorp at the age of 63 on May 8, 1933. In 1938 she sold her farm to her son Emmett and resided there with him.

She leaves to mourn, three children, two daughters, Mrs. Guy Jewett of West Salem and Mrs. Harold Mattes of Thorp; one son, Emmett Frese of Thorp; one son, Harry, died in World War II.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Leland Shaw at the Thorp Funeral Home at 2:00 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Interment took place in the family lot in the East Thorp Cemetery.

Pallbearers were John Barth, Caesar Barth, Conrad Barth, Bill Lockbaum, Ernest Doege and Joe Grabowski.

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