Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Menke were conducted in the Freiburg - Wiskirchen funeral home, Monday morning at 8:30, and at 9 o'clock in St. Boniface church. Burial was in St. Boniface cemetery. The Reverend Oscar Schubert conducted requiem high mass and committal services.
The pall bearers were: Elmo Eiff, Ray Damhorst, Elmer Vance, Joseph Holtschlag, Carl Rummenie, and Paul Broemmel.
Among those attending the services were: a daughter, Mrs. John H. Collins of San Antonio, Texas; a granddaughter, Miss Edith Menke, of Chicago; and a grandson, Norman Menke, from the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Mrs. Menke had been a resident of Quincy for 64 years. Joseph Holtkamp, her father, came to Quincy with his family in 1885, and opened a grocery store at Fifth and Chestnut streets, where he remained in the business for thirty-five years.
Her husband, Bernard Menke, was in the grocery business at Fifth and Locust for thirty years, retiring some years ago.
Mrs. Menke spent last winter in San Antonio, Texas, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John Collins, who accompanied her mother back to Quincy in June, and has since remained here.
- The Quincy Herald Whig, Monday, November 4, 1929; page 12.
The pall bearers were: Elmo Eiff, Ray Damhorst, Elmer Vance, Joseph Holtschlag, Carl Rummenie, and Paul Broemmel.
Among those attending the services were: a daughter, Mrs. John H. Collins of San Antonio, Texas; a granddaughter, Miss Edith Menke, of Chicago; and a grandson, Norman Menke, from the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Mrs. Menke had been a resident of Quincy for 64 years. Joseph Holtkamp, her father, came to Quincy with his family in 1885, and opened a grocery store at Fifth and Chestnut streets, where he remained in the business for thirty-five years.
Her husband, Bernard Menke, was in the grocery business at Fifth and Locust for thirty years, retiring some years ago.
Mrs. Menke spent last winter in San Antonio, Texas, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John Collins, who accompanied her mother back to Quincy in June, and has since remained here.
- The Quincy Herald Whig, Monday, November 4, 1929; page 12.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Menke were conducted in the Freiburg - Wiskirchen funeral home, Monday morning at 8:30, and at 9 o'clock in St. Boniface church. Burial was in St. Boniface cemetery. The Reverend Oscar Schubert conducted requiem high mass and committal services.
The pall bearers were: Elmo Eiff, Ray Damhorst, Elmer Vance, Joseph Holtschlag, Carl Rummenie, and Paul Broemmel.
Among those attending the services were: a daughter, Mrs. John H. Collins of San Antonio, Texas; a granddaughter, Miss Edith Menke, of Chicago; and a grandson, Norman Menke, from the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Mrs. Menke had been a resident of Quincy for 64 years. Joseph Holtkamp, her father, came to Quincy with his family in 1885, and opened a grocery store at Fifth and Chestnut streets, where he remained in the business for thirty-five years.
Her husband, Bernard Menke, was in the grocery business at Fifth and Locust for thirty years, retiring some years ago.
Mrs. Menke spent last winter in San Antonio, Texas, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John Collins, who accompanied her mother back to Quincy in June, and has since remained here.
- The Quincy Herald Whig, Monday, November 4, 1929; page 12.
The pall bearers were: Elmo Eiff, Ray Damhorst, Elmer Vance, Joseph Holtschlag, Carl Rummenie, and Paul Broemmel.
Among those attending the services were: a daughter, Mrs. John H. Collins of San Antonio, Texas; a granddaughter, Miss Edith Menke, of Chicago; and a grandson, Norman Menke, from the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Mrs. Menke had been a resident of Quincy for 64 years. Joseph Holtkamp, her father, came to Quincy with his family in 1885, and opened a grocery store at Fifth and Chestnut streets, where he remained in the business for thirty-five years.
Her husband, Bernard Menke, was in the grocery business at Fifth and Locust for thirty years, retiring some years ago.
Mrs. Menke spent last winter in San Antonio, Texas, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John Collins, who accompanied her mother back to Quincy in June, and has since remained here.
- The Quincy Herald Whig, Monday, November 4, 1929; page 12.
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"Mother."
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"Wife of B. H. Menke." No prior page in cemetery.
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