Obit: Kiefer, Ottilia (1891 – 1974)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Kiefer, Hodnik, Steger

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 24 Jan 1974

Kiefer, Ottilia (1 Jan 1891 – 17 Jan 1974)

Funeral services were held Saturday at St. Bernard’s Catholic Church, Abbotsford, for Mrs. Ottilia Kiefer, 82, who died Thursday, January 17, 1974 at Colonial Nursing Home of Colby.

A parish rosary was said at 8 p.m. Friday evening at Polnaszek Funeral Home, Abbotsford, where the body lay in state.

Rev. Emil Hodnik officiated at the 11 a.m. service Saturday, and interment took place in the Abbotsford Cemetery. Six grandsons served as pallbearer.

Mrs. Kiefer was born February 1, 1891 at Theresa. The former Ottilia Steger was married to John A. Kiefer at Theresa on September 10, 1913. The couple farmed in Dodge County, moving to the town of Holton, where they farmed from 1918 until their retirement in 1952, when they came to Abbotsford. Her husband died in 1962. Mrs. Kiefer had resided at Colonial Nursing Home of Colby for the past three years.

She was a member of St. Bernard’s Catholic Church and of the church Altar Society.

Survivors include three sons, Gilbert, Menomonee Falls, Aaron, Fort Atkinson, and Raymond, Route 1, Abbotsford; 16 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren, and two brothers, John and Lawrence Steger.

Three brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.

Pallbearers, all grandsons, were Gilbert Jr., Dennis, Donald, Michael, Ronald and Dan Kiefer.

Tom and Mark Kiefer, grandsons, were Mass servers.