Obit: Grade, Stella (1917 - 1969)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Grade, Sternitzky, Riedel, Wolf, Garbisch, Agnew

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 12/25/1969

Grade, Stella (25 January 1917 - 18 December 1969)

Funeral services for Stella Grade, 52, of Granton, who died December 18, were held at 3 p.m. Saturday from the Gilbertson Funeral Home. The Rev. John Agnew, chaplain of St. Joseph’s Hospital at Marshfield, officiated. Burial was made in the Lynn Cemetery.

She was born January 25, 1917, in North Dakota, but spent most of her life in the Town of Lynn.

Survivors include six daughters: Ardena of Eau Claire, Olive and Betty of Racine, Ardella of Janesville, Linda of Rockford, Ill., and Grace of Wausau; three sons, Otto of Williams Bay, Junior of Beloit, and Billy of Wausau; five brothers, Clifford and Perle of Greenwood, Kenneth of Granton, Albert and Duane of Rockford, Ill.; two sisters, Miladore of Neillsville and Louise of Beloit; her father, William Grade; and eight grandchildren.

Pallbearers were: Clarence Sternitzky, David Sternitzky, Paul Riedel, Matt Wolf, Carl Sternitzky and Douglas Grade. Mrs. Leland Garbisch provided organ music.