contributor: Dorothy Hagemann

 
Dec 10, 1938  

RETIRED BUTTER MAKER SUCCUMBS AT HOSPITAL

(Special to Press-Gazette) OCONTO, Wis. John Thiede, Sr., 75, retired Abrams butter maker, died at Bellin hospital, Green Bay Saturday of complications. His body was brought to the Gallagher funeral home here, and funeral services will be held at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon at the residence in Abrams and at the German Lutheran Church, Abrams, at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Paul C. Eggert officiating. Interment will be in Brookside cemetery.

Thiede was born in Helenville, Aug. 11, 1863. He was known as the first person to open and operate a butter factory, as creameries were then known, in this part of the state with factories at Little Suamico, Pensaukee and Abrams.

On Dec. 2, 1883, at Helenville he was married to Augusta Schultz, who survives him, as do also six children, Arthur, Seymour, Ernest, Watton, Mich., Orion, Sidnaw, Mich., John, jr., Pensaukee, Walter Viola, Mrs. Ewait Falk, Oconto; one sister, Mrs. Herman Streich, Johnson Creek; 12 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren.