Obit: Laabs, Lily (1886 - 1959)

 

Contact: Stan
Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

 

Surnames: Laabs, Meyer, Botterud, Schulte, Sampe, Gebhart, Salter, Kademan

 

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 01/07/1960

 

Laabs, Lily (17 MAR 1886 - 31 DEC 1959)

 

Mrs. Lily Laabs, 73, former Curtiss (Clark Co., Wis.) resident, died at her home in Livingston, Mont., Thursday, Dec. 31, 1959.  Funeral services were held there Monday, Jan. 4.

 

The former Lily Meyer was born March 17, 1886 in the town of Green Gove, and reared there.  She married Andrew Botterud of Curtiss.  They lived in Montana where she had spent most of her life.  Mr. Botterud died in 1930, and in September 1944 she married Fred W. Laabs of Curtiss.  They resided in Curtiss until his death in March of 1948, when she returned to her former home in Livingston.

 

Survivors are two sons, Keith Botterud, attached to the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua; Harold Botterud, Livingston, Mont.; five grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Otto (Cora) Schulte, Colby; Mrs. Richard (Mayme) Sampe, Faribault, Minn.; Mrs. George (Stella) Gebhart, Wauwatosa, and Mrs. Della Salter, Wis. Rapids, and a brother, Herbert Meyer Sr., rural Curtiss.

 

A niece and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Kademan, Marshfield, attended the funeral.

 

 


© Every submission is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

 

Show your appreciation of this freely provided information by not copying it to any other site without our permission.

 

Become a Clark County History Buff

 

Report Broken Links

A site created and maintained by the Clark County History Buffs
and supported by your generous donations.

 

Webmasters: Leon Konieczny, Tanya Paschke,

Janet & Stan Schwarze, James W. Sternitzky,

Crystal Wendt & Al Wessel

 

CLARK CO. WI HISTORY HOME PAGE