contributor: Richard La Brosse

Spruce 
6 AUG 1911  

Pelnar, Frank (b. OCT 1865, d. 6 AUG 1911)

Note: DEATH: Oconto County Court House: Oconto WI; Index -
Frank Pelnar August 6, 1911; Volume 6, page 53.
Visited by N. Janda, Warsaw IN on 7-26-94.
DEATH: Death Record: Frank Pelnar, male, white;
Born March 1866;
Died Aug 6, 1911; Age 45 yrs 4 mos
Accidental Drowning
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Parents: Joseph Pelnar, born in Bohemia & Mary Holub, born in Bohemia
Occupation: Laborer
Death information given by James Pelnar of Menominee,
Michigan Burial in Spruce Cemetery on August 8, 1911
Undertaker: F. Klimush (?) Lena, Wis.
Place of death: County of Oconto, Township of Spruce
Courthouse record

***************************************************************************************************************** Obituary- Kewaunee Enterprise Index 1859-1920;
Obit announcements 1911
Copy of obit from paper in possession of N. Janda, Warsaw IN

FRANK PELNAR DROWNED
Former Resident Accidently Drowned In Westcott Lake.

Frank Pelnar, a former resident of Carlton was accidently drowned in Westcott Lake near Spruce on Saturday last. Just how the accident happened is not known, but it is thought that he accidently fell out from a boat in which he was fishing alone, as the craft was found right side up and free from water.

But ten minutes had elapsed between the time he was last seen and the noticing of the empty boat. His son John almost lost his life in trying to recover the body by diving.

Frank Pelnar was born in the Town of Carlton in Kewaunee county in 1865 where he grew to manhood. In the fall of 1890 he was married to Sophie Hlawacek, also of the Town of Carlton, and to this union were born seven children. In 1893 the Pelnar's moved to Spruce where they have since resided.

Both his parents are dead and he had but one brother, James, who is engaged in the grocery business in Menominee.