Obit: Kopp, Amelia (1888 - 1946)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Kopp, Marks, Schwarze, Siwek, Meister, Hollman, Kutsche, Seidleman, Filitz, Gloff, Meiers, Bartell, Jochum, Hallman, Baumann

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) July 25, 1946

Kopp, Amelia (2 July 1888 - 20 July 1946)

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Georgas Funeral Home and at St. John’s Lutheran Church for Mrs. Ferdinand Kopp, 58. The Rev. William A. Baumann officiated. She was laid to rest in the Neillsville Cemetery. Mrs. Kopp had been confined to a hospital since July 8, and died Saturday, July 20, (1946).

Amelia Marks was born July 2, 1888, in Poland, and received her education there. On June 17, 1911, she was married to Ferdinand Kopp, who survives. They were the parents of four children.

Besides her husband she is survived by three sons, Albert and Erich of Neillsville, and William of Menomonie; a daughter Mrs. Theodore (Hattie) Schwarze, Marshfield; a brother, Rudolph Marks of Salamanca, N.Y.; three sisters, Mrs. E. Siwek, Winnipeg, Can., Mrs. Robert Meister and Mrs. William Hollman, both of Chicago; and six grandchildren.

The pallbearers were: Ray Kutsche, Henry Seidleman, Elmer Filitz, Herman Gloff, Herman Meiers and Henry Bartell.

Those from out-of-town who were here for the funeral included: Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Schwarze and son, Gilbert, Marshfield; the William Kopp family of Menomonie; Mr. and Mrs. Christ Jochum and daughter, Katherene, Fifield; Mrs. Robert Meister and Mrs. Pauline Hallman of Chicago.

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