Obit: Baehr, Loella (1912 - 1961)

 

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Surnames: Baehr, Luhrsen, Nielsen, Miller

 

----Source: ABBOTSFORD TRIBUNE (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 07/20/1961

 

Baehr, Loella (24 APR 1912 - 16 JUL 1961)

 

Funeral services for Mrs. Loella Baehr, 49, who died Sunday at the Virginia Nursing Home, Waukesha, were held at the First Presbyterian Church at Abbotsford Wednesday.  The body was brought from Waukesha Wednesday noon, and laid in state at the church until two o’clock when the Rev. Wallace Smith conducted the services.

 

Miss Jackie Scheel was the organist and Miss Joan Pautz sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Perfect Day."

 

Pallbearers for the interment made in the Abbotsford Cemetery were Kenneth Anderson, Darrell Bobbe, Len Colby, Jack Kelsey, Melvin Nikolay and Alfred Scheel.

 

Loella Luhrsen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Luhrsen, was born April 24, 1912, in Eau Claire and came to Abbotsford in 1916.  After graduation from the Abbotsford High School in 1931, she attended Carroll College at Waukesha and returned to teach in the Abbotsford High School until 1940.

 

On Dec. 27, 1939, she and Arnold Baehr were married at Dorchester, and the following year they moved to Hartford.  In Sept. 1943, Mr. Baehr was killed in an automobile accident.

 

In 1949, Mrs. Baehr received her master’s degree in library science from the University of Minnesota and joined the staff of Milwaukee Downer College that year and was made head librarian in 1953.  She was a class adviser for the class of 1953.

 

Due to ill health since January she had been unable to take care of her duties.

 

Mrs. Baehr was a member of the school division of the American Library Association, the Special Library Association, and the Wis. Library Association.

 

Surviving her are two brothers, Delos C. Luhrsen of Marshfield and August Luhrsen of Waukesha, and two sisters, Mrs. Clyde H. Nielsen of Minneapolis and Mrs. Wanda Miller of Foster.

 

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents and three brothers, Hollis, Cully and C. H. (Louie), who died last April.

 

 


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