contributor: Richard LaBrosse

Green Bay Press Gazette  
 

--Michael Durbven, 74, died Sunday afternoon at his home on 1308 Elm st., after an illness of three years. Mr. Durben was born July 2, 1853 at Rhine Briese, Germany.

He is survived by his wife Helena, three daughters, Mrs. Herbert DeGroot and sister M. Michaeline of Racine, and Mrs. Henry Rothe of Green Bay, five sons, Peter and Louis of Green Bay, Adam and Henry of Racine and John of Milwaukee, one brother, John of Chilton, two sisters, Mrs. Paul Weber of Maryton, and Mrs. Anna Schallack, Milwaukee, sixteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral service will be held at 9 am Thursday morning from SS Peter and Paul Church with interment at Allouez cemetery.