Obit: Marette, Josephine (Mertens) (Werner) (1883 – 1954)

Contact: Linda Mertens
Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Marette, Mertens, Werner, Hayden, Assella, Jantsch, Sauter, Boxrucker, Simerson, Ortlieb

----Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Josephine Marette (24 Jan 1883 – 14 May 1954)

Funeral services for Mrs. Josephine Marette, 71, were held from St. Louis Catholic church here at 9:30 am Monday, May 17. The Rev. Msgr. Thomas Hayden, pastor, officiated at the Requiem High Mass, and the children’s choir, under the direction of Sister M. Assella sang. Mass servers were William Jantsch, Jr., Kenneth Sauter, Darryl Mertens, Steve Mertens and James Jantsch.

Burial was in Dorchester Memorial cemetery with Albert Mertens, Carl Mertens, Lawrence Mertens, John Mertens, Louis Boxrucker, Walter Boxrucker, Raymond Boxrucker, and Clarence Boxrucker, nephews of the deceased, serving as pallbearers. Fuchsgruber Funeral Service had charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Marette died in St. Joseph hospital, Marshfield, at 3:30 am Friday, May 14. She was taken ill at home the previous Sunday evening, and admitted to the hospital early Monday. Death was attributed to pulmonary edema and general congestive failure.

She lay in state Sunday at the William Jantsch home where rosary services were held Sunday, in the afternoon by the Christian Mothers Society and Lady Foresters of which she had been a member, and in the evening a general rosary.

Josephine Mertens was born January 24, 1883, in the Town of Medford, and attended the Medford parochial school. She was married to Julius Werner September 26, 1904, in Holy Rosary Catholic church at Medford, and they moved to the farm in the Town of Little Black now operated by Louis Boxrucker. Mr. Werner died August 8, 1917, and in 1919, the widow started the milk route in Dorchester which she sold to Rudy Ortlieb in 1925.

February 4, 1920, she and John Marette were married in St. Louis Catholic church here. He died September 16, 1925 and after sale of the business, Mrs. Marette lived in the house which is now the Joel Winchell duplex until 1933, when she went to live at the William Jantsch home where she had resided since.

Surviving are two sons and two daughters, Edward Werner and Mrs. William (Loretta) Jantsch, Dorchester; Mrs. I. R. (Estelle) Sauter, Random Lake; and Julius Werner, Madison and 15 grandchildren. Other survivors include a brother, Henry Mertens, Dorchester; five half-brothers and a half-sister; Joseph Boxrucker, Colby; John Boxrucker, Abbotsford; Anton Boxrucker, Medford; Jake Boxrucker, Stetsonville; Casper Boxrucker, Athens, and Mrs. Martha Simerson, Milwaukee.

Relatives and friends at the funeral came from Medford, Stetsonville, Curtiss, Owen, Abbotsford, Colby, Jefferson, Athens, Phillips, Milwaukee, Spencer, and Marshfield.