Obit: Schwenter, Clara (Bilz) (Habeck) (1883 - 1957)

Contact: Linda Mertens
Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Bilz, Dake, Daeke, Habeck, Hagebusch, Lasby, Mund, Schwentner, Wuest

----Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Clara (Bilz) Habeck Schwentner (1883 - 14 Nov 1957)

Funeral services were held Sunday, Nov. 17, at Park Falls for Mrs. Charles Schwentner who died Nov. 14 at her home there from a heart attack. Final rites were held from Trinity Lutheran church at 2 p. m. with the Rev. W. C. Hagebusch officiating, and burial was in Nola cemetery.

Mrs. Schwentner, the former Clara Bilz, was born in (Arnsdorf) Saxony, Germany. She came to this country (1891) with her parents (Frederick & Julianne Bohne Bilz) who settled on a farm near this village (Dorchester, Clark Co., WI). She was married to Charles (William) Habeck (25 Sep 1880 - 1918) in St. Peter's Lutheran church here about 55 years ago (12 Oct 1902). He died in the fall of 1918, and in 1926 she married Charles Schwentner, who survives her. She had resided at Park Falls many years.

Other survivors include a daughter Mrs. Milton (Esther) Lasby, Eau Claire; a son, Arnold Habeck, Park Falls; two grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Fred (Lena P.) Mund, Kennan, a brother-in-Law, John Habeck, a sister-in-law, Mrs. Mollie (Amalie Habeck) Dake, Dorchester.

Mrs. (Amalie Habeck) Dake, from here, Mr. Habeck, Conrad and (Emma Wuest) Kramer and Mrs. Lena (Helena Benzmann) Woempner of Abbotsford, attended the funeral services.

Information in parentheses was provided by Dan Rusch-Fischer.