Obit: Umlauft, Isadore Joseph #2 (1924 - 2009)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Umlauft, Turner, Ulrich, Shaw, Anacker, Engevold, Schmitt, Shaw-Laube, Napper, Augustine 
 

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Thursday, 5 Nov. 2009 
 

Umlauft, Isadore Joseph (6 May 1924 - 3 Nov. 2009) 
 

Isadore Joseph Umlauft Sr., 85, of Marshfield, died Tuesday evening, Nov. 3, 2009, at the Bethel Nursing Center with his family by his side and under the tender care of Ministry Home Hospice. 
 

Funeral services will be held at noon Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, at the Hansen-Schilling Funeral Home, Marshfield. The Rev. Tricia Turner will officiate. Isadore's grandchildren will have the honor of being pallbearers. 
 

A time of visitation will be held from 9 a.m. until time of service at the Hansen-Schilling Funeral Home. Interment will be held at Brooklawn Memory Gardens. American Legion Post No. 54 will conduct military honors. 
 

Isadore was born May 6, 1924, in Dorchester, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Ulrich) Umlauft. He graduated from Dorchester High School in 1943. Isadore served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was employed at Wisconsin Homes, retiring in 1989. 
 

He was united in marriage to the Lucille Augustine on June 10, 1952, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Green Grove. 
 

Isadore was a world class rock collector and very proud of the fact that one of his rocks is at the Smithsonian Museum. He also made jewelry and watch bands with rocks he collected. Isadore was a 40-year member of the Heart of Wisconsin Gem and Mineral Society and was an avid roller skater. 
 

Isadore is lovingly survived by his children, Myrna (Leonard) Shaw, Vesper, Isadore Jr. (Sheila) Umlauft, Auburndale, Larry Umlauft, Eau Claire, Star (Paul) Anacker, Wisconsin Rapids, and Renee (Rick Engevold) Schmitt, Marshfield. He is further survived by eight grandchildren, Kevin, Loren and Michael Shaw, Krisan (Paul) Shaw-Laube, Kimberly (Evan) Napper, and Ashley, Travis and Kristina Schmitt. Isadore is also survived six great-grandchildren, Jordan and Alison Laube, Jaidyn Napper, and Cameron, Katrina and Conner Schmitt. He is further survived by many other family and friends. 
 

Isadore was preceded in death by his loving wife, Lucille; and his parents.