Obit: Pagel, Emma (1879 – 1967)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Pagel, Jaeger, Kind, Pohl, Hartwig, Kraut, Vorland, Fakes

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 31 Aug 1967

Pagel, Emma (16 FEB 1879 – 20 AUG 1967)

Mrs. Emma Pagel, 88, New Holstein, a former resident and frequent visitor in the Curtiss (Clark Co., Wis.) area, died of a heart attack August 20, 1967 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Walter Jaeger, at New Holstein.

Services were conducted August 23 at the Evenezer United Church of Christ in Chilton, and burial was made there in the Hillside Cemetery.

The former Emma Kind was born February 16, 1879 at Rantoul, Wis., and when a child came with her parents to the Curtiss area. Her marriage to Herman Page, who preceded her in death, took place November 4, 1904. The couple observed their 50th wedding anniversary in 1954. For the past 60 years Mrs. Pagel has resided in New Holstein.

She was a member of the Ebenezer United Church of Christ at Chilton.

Survivors are four sons, Theodore of California; John, Herman and Arnold, Chilton; a daughter, Mrs. Walter (Ollie) Jaeger, New Holstein; three brothers, Otto Kind, Greenwood; Ed Kind, New Holstein; and Adolph Kind, Germantown; two sisters, Mrs. Augusta Pohl, St. Paul, Minn.; and Mrs. Lena Hartwig, Milwaukee; 15 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews, including Franklin and Donald Kraut, Curtiss; Mrs. Pearl Vorland, Colby, and Arthur Fakes, Curtiss.

Two brothers and three sisters preceded her in death.