Obit: Lemke, Vera #2 (1924 - 2011)

Contact: Audrey Roedl

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Surnames: Lemke, Elmhorst, Desens, Nesvick, Richards

----Source: The Loyal TRG ( Loyal, Clark County, WI 23 Nov 2011)

Lemke, Vera (19 OCT 1924- 18 NOV 2011)

Vera H. Lemke, 87, Marshfield, formerly of Loyal, died on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, at the Marshfield Care Center. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 25, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Loyal. Rev. Daniel Zimmerman will officiate and burial will follow in Hillside Cemetery, Marshfield. Pallbearers will be Ron Riedel, Scott Lokken, Eric Elmhurst, Scott Elmhorst, Roger Kadolph and Shane Vaughn. Visitation Will be held at the church, on Friday, from 10 a.m., until time of service.

Vera Harriet Elmhurst was born on Oct. 19, 1924, in theTown of Freemont, Clark County, the daughter of Henry and Martha (nee Desens) Elmhorst. She was raised on the family farm and received her education at Franklin Grade School, Evangelical Lutheran Parochial School and graduated from Granton High School in 1942.

After completing her education, she moved to Milwaukee and worked at Cutler Hammer for a short time. She moved back to Marshfield and was employed at Macson Photo. She married Harold C. Lemke on March 23, 1946, at the Granton Evangelical Lutheran Church parsonage. They purchased her husband’s family farm near Loyal, and she farmed with her husband for 33 years, retiring in 1979 and moving to Marshfield. Her husband, Harold, died on March 31, 2005. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Loyal. She had many interests, but especially enjoyed knitting and crocheting, and she sewed many quilt tops and backs for the church.

She will be sadly missed by her four children, Sandra (Robert) Nesvick, Vancouver, Wash., Barbara (George) Richards, Houston, Texas, Thomas (Susan) Lemke, Madison, and Kenneth (Barbara) Lemke, Marshfield; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; one sister, Laura (Vernon) Wegner, Minneapolis, Minn.; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Harold; five brothers: Clarence, Walter, Henry, Carl, and Eldon; and five sisters, Amanda Witheft, Dorothy Capelle, Emma Smith, Evelyn Montgomery, and her identical twin sister, Verna Stover.

In lieu of flowers, Vera’s family asks that memorials be given to the Alzheimer’s Association www.alz.org.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.cuddiefh.com.

Cuddie Funeral Home, Loyal, is assisting the family with arrangements.