Obit: Baer, Elizabeth (1905 – 1966) 

Contact: Dinah Reinke

Email: dinah@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Baer, Weinke, Raasch, Hockevar

------ Source: Tribune-Phonograph (Abbotsford and Colby, Clark Co., Wis.) 04/07/1966

------ Baer, Elizabeth (21 APR 1905 – 04 APR 1966)

Miss Elizabeth Baer, 60, of Milwaukee died Monday morning, April 4, at Milwaukee County General hospital where she was a patient for 66 days.

The body will lie in state at the Polnaszek Funeral Home at Abbotsford beginning at 3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon.  Funeral services will be held there Thursday afternoon.

Burial will be made in the family plot in the Abbotsford cemetery.

Elizabeth Baer was born at Ridgeway, Wis., April 21, 1905.  She was educated at Donald and in the town of Frankfort schools.  Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Baer, operated a cheese factory in the town of Frankfort., having come to that area in 1929.  In the fall of 1944 Mr. and Mrs. Baer moved to Abbotsford.

Miss Baer, who never married, was employed in Milwaukee and Evanston, Ill.

Surviving her are one brother, Fred Baer, of Union Grove, and three sisters, Mrs. Fred (Margretta) Weinke of route 1, Edgar, Mrs. Wilfred (Bertha) Raasch of Greendale, and Mrs. John (Genevieve) Hockevar of Milwaukee.

She was preceded in death by her parents and infant brother.