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Obituary Editor and Historic Family News Researcher.- Cathe Ziereis

 
NEWSPAPER
REPORTED DEATHS
IN OLD
OCONTO COUNTY 1937
Oconto County Reporter
September 17, 1937
researched, transcribed and contributed by Richard LaBrosse

Mrs. Marie Anderson, Gillett, was found dead by her son, Ellsworth Saturday morning when he returned home from work at seven.  Death was caused by a heart attack.
 

Oconto County Reporter
September 21, 1937
researched, transcribed and contributed by Richard LaBrosse

Mrs. August Giese, 28, passed away Saturday evening at seven.  Death followed an operation for ruptured appendix submitted to three weeks ago.
 

Oconto County Reporter
October 1, 1937
researched by Richard LaBrosse

Herman Gustave Bostedt, 70, a former Oconto resident and business man, passed away Tuesday afternoon in Marinette.  Death followed a four months illness.

Joseph Skola, 68, veteran of numerous wars, was found dead Sunday from a heart attack at his bachelor home in Townsend.
 

Oconto County Reporter
October 8, 1937
researched, transcribed and contributed by Richard LaBrosse

Christian Miller, 81, passed away this morning at one at the Kenny brothers home, town of Oconto, where he made his home.  He had been in poor health for two years.

Dr. and Mrs. F.J. Stevens left Tuesday evening for Milwaukee.  Dr. Stevens was called by the sudden death of his father Francis E. Stevens, Sr., 71.
 

Oconto County Reporter 
October 15, 1937 
researched by Richard LaBrosse 

Charles Petersen, 55, life long resident of Oconto, passed away Monday evening at the Oconto hospital.  Death followed a weeks illness due to pneumonia. 

William Luebeck, 43, resident of Suring, died at three thirty Sunday afternoon at a Green Bay hospital of injuries received about six o’clock in the evening when he was struck by a car at Suring.

Funeral services are being held for Hugo Gipp, 61, of the town of How, who passed away Saturday morning at a Shawano hospital.
 

Oconto County Reporter
October 22, 1937

An investigation is being conducted by Corner J.S. Dougherty into the death of James Sucharda, 48, Oconto, who died almost instantly of injuries received when he was struck on the highway shortly after six Saturday night.

On Saturday, Oct. 16, at 8:50 p.m., death claimed an aged Oconto county resident for more than 60 years.  Thomas Christ Johnson, 99.  Death occurred at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Ziereis in the town of Armstrong.
 

Oconto County Reporter
December 17, 1937

Injuries received when he was struck by a hit and run driver near Elmwood, Ill. Tuesday, proved fatal to Arthur L. Meritt, 57, Oconto resident and former owner of the two local theatres, who passed away at a Canton, Ill, hospital Wednesday.
 

Oconto County Reporter
December 21, 1937

Mrs. Orville Adams, Iron Mountain, Mich., formerly Florence Beekman, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Antone Beekman, Oconto, died at the Oconto hospital Tuesday afternoon as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident at Abrams shortly before noon Tuesday.

Funeral services for Mrs. Herbert Colson, 64, who passed away at four Sunday morning at her home on Jones Avenue.

Services were held for Willie Baldwin, 80, Mountain, who passed away on Friday, December 17 at three in the morning.
 


 
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