Obit: Younker, Marie (Gabriel) (1893 - 1951)

Contact: Linda Mertens
Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Younker, Gabriel, Kelnhofer, Stoiber, Decker, Kruger, Baumer, Scott

----Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Marie Younker (22 Mar 1893 - 23 Sep 1951)

Funeral services for Mrs. Marie Younker, 58, were held from St. Louis Catholic church here (Dorchester, Clark Co., WI) Tuesday, September 25, with the Rev. Father M.J. Kelnhofer, pastor, officiating at the Requiem High mass at 9 am. Interment was made in Dorchester Memorial cemetery, and pallbearers were Clarence Stoiber, Alvin Stoiber, Robert Stoiber, Norbert Younker, James Gabriel, and Cyril Decker.

Mrs. Younker, who had been in poor health for some months past, succumbed to the illness in the Medford hospital Sunday, Sept. 23 at 11:50 am. She lay in state at her home in the village prior to time of the funeral, arrangements for which were in charge of Fuchsgruber Funeral Service.

Marie Magdalene Gabriel was born March 22, 1893, in Delmenhorst, Bremen, Germany. She and Joseph Younker were married in St Mary’s Catholic church, Colby, on July 17, 1912, and moved to a farm in this community immediately afterward. Mr. Younker died Jan. 18, 1942. In 1947, Mrs. Younker purchased a home in the village where she had since resided. She was a member of the Christian Mother’s Society of St. Louis parish, and of the Women’s Catholic Order of Foresters, St. Louis Court.

Three children survive: Leo Younker and Mrs. Robert (Rita) Kruger, Dorchester, and M/Sgt. Joseph Younker, Spokane, Wash. She also leaves nine grandchildren. Two children, Raymond and Ruth, died in infancy, and one grandchild also preceded her in death.

Other survivors include four sisters, Mrs. Frank (Anna) Stoiber, and Mrs. Herman (Emma) Baumer, of this community; Mrs. Warren (Rose) Scott, in California, and Miss Agnes Gabriel, Chicago, Ill.; five brothers, Nick Gabriel, in Montana, Frank Gabriel, with the U.S. armed forces in Germany; Anton Gabriel, Milwaukee; August Gabriel, Milton Junction, and Joseph Gabriel, with the U.S. navy, Norfolk, Va. Two sisters and her parents are dead.