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Obituary Editor and Historic Family News Researcher.- Cathe Ziereis

 
NEWSPAPER
REPORTED DEATHS
IN OLD
OCONTO COUNTY 1940
Special to Press-Gazette
March 17, 1940

Max Kuskie, Sobieski 
Succumbs in Hospital



PULASKI, Wis.- Max Kuskie, 65, Sobieski, died Sunday afternoon at a Green Bay hospital following a lingering illness.

Born in the town of Chase in March, 1875, he was married to Polly Kwasny in 1905. He had been a railway mail messenger at Sobieski for the last 25 years.

Survivors are his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Galen Clewly, Peshtigo; four sons, Clarence and John, Green Bay; Felix, Milwaukee; and James, town of Howard; one sister, Mrs. John O'Connor, Shawano, route 1; two brothers. Rudolph, town of Chase, and Paul, Mount Calvary; and two grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at St. John's Cantius church at Sobieski at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning with the Rev. Stanley Jouczewski officiating and burial in the church cemetery. The Marnocha Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. 
 

April 24, 1940

Old Resident Dies

Joseph Jarvey, an old time resident of Abrams, passed away at the home of his daughter in Chicago, Saturday, April 20, having spent the winter there. The remains were brought to Abrams Sunday and funeral services were held at the Stiles Catholic church and interment was in the Stiles cemetery. He was 86 years of age and is survived by a large family.
 

Nov. 19, 1940

Mrs. John Virtues Dies at Little Suamico Home

Mrs. John Virtues, a pioneer resident of Little Suamico, died at her home on Tuesday. She had celebrated her seventy-fourth birthday anniversary November 15. 

She was born in New Franken November 15, 1866. She came to Little Suamico after her marriage and had resided there for the last fifty -four years. She is survived by three sons, John E. of Green Bay, Ormer G. and Arthur of Little Suamico.

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Exhume Body For Complete Autopsy Before Civil Suit

Widow Claiming David Walsh Death Year Ago Caused by Fall Into Basement at Tavern.

In the first case of its kind in the annals of Oconto county, the body of David Walsh, 60, who died Aug. 27, 1938, was exhumed Friday for a complete autopsy, the findings of which are expected to bear weight in a civil suit scheduled for trial here during the November term of circuit court.

Walsh, whose body was buried in the Catholic cemetery at Sobieski, died as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage, it was determined by Coroner J. S. Dougherty following an autopsy performed on the man's brain immediately following his death. He was found in an unconscious state in the basement of a tavern operated by Fred Lasch on Aug. 26, 1938, and was taken to the Oconto Falls hospital where he died the following day. 

His widow, Mrs. Anna Walsh, instituted suit against Lasch, claiming that   the basement entrance was improperly guarded for a public place, and that her husband's death resulted from a fall into the basement where he was found. The defense claims that Walsh died from an apoplectic stroke produced from a cerebral hemorrhage unrelated to any possible fall.

The body was ordered exhumed by Circuit Judge Arnold F. Murphy by stipulation of both parties in the action through their attorneys. Bert Everson, Green Bay, for the plaintiff, and Tom V. Donoghue Oconto, for the defendant.
 


 
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