contributor: Tasha Treptow

undated clipping from unknown newspaper
[handwritten note: Easter 1952]

Rites Monday for Mrs. Herman Blaser at Chase

Green Bay, Wisc. -- Mrs. Herman Blaser, 81, died Tuesday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Florence Materniak, 901 S. Oakland avenue, Green Bay, after an illness of three months. She was the former Mathilda Polman [sic], and was born July 8, 1870, in the town of Chase, Oconto county.

The Blasers were married in the town of Chase Sept. 26, 1887, and lived on a farm there for 49 years. From 1936 to 1939 they lived in Oconto, and after the death of her husband in 1939, Mrs. Blaser moved to Green Bay to live with her daughter here.

Survivors are five daughters, Mrs. Martin Baeten, Wrightstown, Mrs. Etta Potts, Mrs. Ernest Vandermoss, and Mrs. Materniak of Green Bay, and Mrs. John Kolkowski, Sampson; and four sons, Willard, Oconto Falls, Jerome, Gillett, Howard Green Bay, and Francis, Chase.

Also surviving her are 35 grandchildren, 40 great grandchildren, and two great great grandchildren, and two half-brothers, Earl Roffner, Oconto Falls, and Clyde Rymer, Cambridge, Wis.

Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock Monday morning in St. Joseph Catholic church at Chase. The Rev. Thaddeus Koszarek offered the requiem mass and burial took place in the parish cemetery, formerly a part of the Blaser homestead.