Obit: Yessa, Edward (1895 – 1967)

Contact: Dinah Reinke
Email: dinah@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Yessa, Hartl, Martyn, Mielke, Brown, Erickson, Dallman, Rosenau, Braun

------ Source: Tribune-Phonograph (Abbotsford and Colby, Clark Co., Wis.) 01/05/1967

------ Yessa, Edward (02 FEB 1895 – 02 JAN 1967)

Funeral services for Edward Yessa, 71, route 1, Curtiss, will be held this afternoon, January 5, at 2:30 p.m. in the Sauter Funeral Home, Stratford. The Rev. John Albrecht will officiate and burial will be in the Stratford cemetery. The body will lie in state at the funeral home until the time of the service. Pallbearers are Leopold Hartl, William Martyn, Irvin Yessa, Edward Mielke, Walter Brown and Bror Erickson.

Mr. Yessa died of a heart attack while doing chores at his farm in the town of Green Grove, about 5 p.m. Monday, January 2. His son, Orville, found his body in the barn about 11 p.m.

Edward Yessa was born in Poland on February 2, 1895. He came to this country in 1914 with his parents, settling in the Stratford area. He farmed in the towns of Johnson and Frankfort until moving to the farm in the town of Green Grove.

Survivors include his wife, the former Elsie Dallman; a son, Orville, route 1, Curtiss; a brother Emanuel, Wausau, and four sisters, Mrs. Aurelia Rosenau and Mrs. Amelia Rosenau, both of Wausau, Mrs. Anton Hartl, Edgar, and Mrs. Nataly Braun, Oconto. He was preceded in death by one son, in infancy, and two brothers, Louis and Adolph.
           

 

 


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