. Susanna Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wensing Topel Kadow.

(also Kreschefski/Topel)

contributed by:  Mary Carl

.Antigo Daily Journal.
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MondayOctober 12, 1942.

.MRS. EDWARD KADOW .


Mrs. Edward (Elizabeth) Kadow, former Langlade county resident, died Friday night at her home near Oconto, aged 70.

Funeral services will be held at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning in St. Joseph's church at Oconto and burial will be in Brookside cemetery.

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.Oconto County Reporter .
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October 15, 1942 .


KADOW

Passing away at the age of 70, Mrs. Elizabeth Kadow succumbed last Friday morning at the Oconto hospital, where she had been taken due to complications which had set in at her home which for several years had been made with a daughter, Mrs. Fred Pope, of Pensaukee.

The body was removed to the Gagnon-Sheffield home and funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Joseph's church with the Rev. M. G. Alt officiating. Burial was in the Brookside cemetery.

The pallbearers at the funeral were Everett Pope, Eugene Scherer, Lloyd Wensing, Ed Swiedarke, Otto Topel, Jos. Topel.

The St. Joseph Altar society of which she was a member, recited the Rosary Monday evening

The deceased was born Sept. 20, 1872, in Pensaukee and is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Fred Pope of Pensaukee; two sons, William Kreshefske, Kempter, Wis., Walter Kreshefske, Garden, Michigan, and four grandchildren and one great grandchild.

note:.Susanna Elizabeth "Lizzie" WENSING  Pensaukee, Wisconsin, Dec. 26, 1888, Christus Lutheran Church records. Married by Chas. J. Waltner, Pastor. Witnesses: Ferdinand Tope!, Heinrich Schwiderke (Swiedarke), Otto Strichansner, Ida Topel, Martha Gandi and Maria Schwiderke. Brides name shown as Susanne E. Wensing on marriage index, groom as A. F. R. Kreschefski. In church records as Susanna Elisabeth Wensing and Albert Theodore Reinhold Kreschefski.

Susanne was born in Pensaukee, Wisconsin on 20 Sept. 1872. Also known as Elizabeth S. and Lizzie. Name as it appears in Christus Church records for marriage and on marriage certificate. Susanna was the daughter of Johann "John" Bernard WENSING and Marie "Mary" PLUCKER.

She married Edward I. KADOW on 23 Dec 1922, in Antigo, Wisconsin.

Second marriage confirmed by family stories of granddaughter Lois Kreshefske.

Susanna died 09 Oct. 1942 in Oconto, WI., at 70 years of age. Oconto VR, Vol. 15, pg. 17. Recorded as Susan Elizabeth Kadow age 70 years 19 days. Husband Edward Kadow. Cause of death heart attack, verified by Dr. Kwapy and Dr. H. Aageson. Buried in the Brookside Cemetery with her name on the same stone as Albert K. and Inscriptions & Notes, Wife of Edward Kadow Mother.


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