Obit: Kauffman, Louise Emma (1956)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Kauffman, Jacobs, Rollins, Osborn, Persall, Swanson  
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) March 1, 1956 
 

Kauffman, Louise Emma (12 December 1868 - 26 February 1956) 
 

Mrs. Louise Emma Kauffman, 87, died at the home of Mrs. Clara Rollins at 4 a.m. Sunday, February 26, 1956. 
 

Mrs. Kauffman, nee Louise Jacobs, was born at Elroy, December 12, 1868.  She received her education there and, on November 4, 1887, she was married there to William Harrison Kauffman.  In 1901 the family moved to Clark County and settled on a farm three miles west of Loyal. 
 

In 1914 they moved to Loyal into a home they had built in the west part of the city.  Mr. Kauffman died in 1932. 
 

For the past seven years Mrs. Kaufmann has made her home with Mrs. Rollins. 
 

She was a member of the Methodist church and the Loyal American Auxiliary. 
 

She is survived by four sons, Vernard, of Loyal; Ray, of Alexandria, Va.; Harley of Flagstaff, Ariz.; and Paul, of Eugene, Ore.; eleven grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Clara Osborn of Augusta, and Mrs. Myrtle Persall of Elroy. 
 

Funeral services were held from the Methodist Church at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Charles Swanson officiated.  Burial was made in the Loyal Cemetery.