Obit: Graffunder, Bennie (1906 – 1974)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Graffunder, Golz, Schauer, Neuenfeldt, Dake, Reynolds

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 23 May 1974

Graffunder, Bennie (12 Feb 1906 – 21 May 1974)

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at St. Peters Lutheran Church in Dorchester for Bennie J. Graffunder, Rt. 1, Abbotsford, who died at 5:55 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 1974 at St. Joseph Hospital in Marshfield at the age of 68.

Rv. Rolland Golz will officiate at the services and at the burial, which will be made in the Dorchester Memorial Cemetery (South). Visitation will be held at Polnaszek Funeral Home in Abbotsford after 12 noon on Friday.

Mr. Graffunder was born February 12, 1906 in the town of Holton, Marathon County. He received his education in the Rosedale School. On May 27, 1925 he was married to Lydia C. Schauer at the Green Grove Church. They farmed in the town of Holton.

He was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, where he hled a church office and was a trustee and elder.

Surviving, in addition to his wife, are two sons, Leonard of Marshfield and Eugene of rural Abbotsford; a daughter, Mrs. Larry (Arlene) Neuenfeldt of Dorchester; a brother, Gayhart Graffunder of Medford; a sister, Helen Dake of Athens; two half-brothers, John Reynolds of Illinois, and Fred Reynolds of Dorchester; twelve grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a daughter and three brothers.