Child Badly Burned.

Special to (be Globe).
New Ulm, Minn., June 13.—The little daughter of Mr. Wokasch, living near town, was badly burned this afternoon while her mother was out of the house. She played with fire, and nearly her whole body was severely scorched and burned. She was brought to the New Ulm hspital [sic] at once.

The follow-up story five days later:

Special to the Globe – New Ulm Minn., June 18.—The little child of Adolph Wokasch, who was badly burned while playing with -matches, died at the hospital today.

• 1894 JUN 14 – St. Paul Globe – Wokasch Baby Burned (New Ulm)
• 1894 JUN 19 – St. Paul Globe – New Ulm Newsletts

George Ignatz Wokasch, 98, Frazee, MN died Monday, August 3, 2009, at the Frazee Care Center. A Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for Thursday, August 6, 2009, at 2 p.m., at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Frazee, with Father Ilango officiating. Rosary, by the Knights of Columbus, will be held at 1 p.m. in the church on Thursday, August 6th, with visitation following until the time of the service at 2 p.m. Burial will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery.

George Wokasch was born to Ignatz and Catherine (Henn) Wokasch on March 11, 1911 in the same house where he lived in Frazee, Minnesota until entering the Frazee Care Center in July of 2004. As a young boy he served as an alter boy when Lake Park was a mission church. After graduation from high school in 1929, George worked at the Aldrich Grocery until he enlisted in the military in February 1941. George was interested in photography; so, while he was enlisted in the military, he was trained as a photographer and sent on several assignments to take photographs and film. He was discharged in September 1945, shortly after the surrender of Japan. George opened a photography shop in Frazee. After several years he decided to go to Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis to study to be an electrician. He got a part-time job at Glenwood Hills Hospital doing maintenance work and later was hired by the Electric Machinery Mfg. Co. Eventually, he was hired by the city of Minneapolis as a worker for the Street Department. George moved back home to Frazee in 1971, after his retirement, to take care of his mother.

George was an avid hunter, fisherman and target shooter and an active member of the Becker County Sportsman’s Club. He loved to play cards and cribbage with his friends and family. George was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, was a charter member of the Knights of Columbus 12581, and started a Scholarship for Frazee students with money earned from a sale of many of his most treasured items.

He is survived by his sister Catherine O’Toole of Minneapolis, MN; brother Norman Wokasch of Colorado Springs, CO; nieces and nephews.

Preceding George in death are his parents, Ignatz and Catherine (Henn) Wokasch; one sister Clara Wokasch; four brothers, Leo, Joseph, Ignatius and Julian Wokasch; and a brother-in-law Leonard O’Toole.

Arrangements are with Furey Funeral Home, 218-334-2461.

Sources:

• Detroit Lakes – Online – August 6, 2009
• Frazee Forum – August 5, 2009

Related:

• George Wokasch’s antique Frazee, gun- & fishing-related items donated for auction

Bullet Kills Woman in Moving Car
Death Unknown for 2 Hours

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – A Minneapolis woman was killed in early morning darkness Saturday by a bullet that pierced the back seat of an automobile cruising along a lonely stretch of U.S. 97.

Mrs. Carl Frederickson, 48, asleep in the seat, died without outcry. Her death was no discovered by other in the car until they reached Bend, 148 miles north of here.

Meanwhile, police arrested a Klamath Indian, Myron Barkley, 26, on a charge of shooting another Indian, Eldon James Cress, 20, Saturday morning.

After learning of the shooting of Mrs. Frederickson, they began questioning Barkley on whether he had any knowledge of it. Sheriff Murray Britton said Barkley admitted being on U.S. 97 about the time and place of the shooting, but denied knowledge of it.

In the past, a number of drivers have complained of shots directed at their cars on or near the Klamath reservation north of here. Once a couple had to jump from their car and hide in the sagebrush all night. Scores of bullet holes later were found in the car.

Mrs. Frdrickson [sic] was in a car driven by her brother-in-law, Russell Holmes Crawford, 42, Oakland, Calif. With her in the back seat were her son, Tom Byron, 8, and two of Crawford’s children. The children were asleep and unhurt. In the front seat with Crawford were his wife and another of their children. They also were asleep and were not injured.

Crawford said he had driven about 20 minutes out of Klamath Falls when he heard three noises he described as “popping.” Police said the road there passes through the Klamath reservation.

Crawford said he though a tire might have blown out, so he stopped and looked. That was about 3 or 3:30 a.m., he said. The tires were all right. Everyone seemed to be sleeping peacefully, so he drove on to Bend, where they were to visit a sister of the two women. It was after they reached the home of the sister, Mrs. Norbert Schadler, that Mrs. Frederickson’s death was discovered. That was about 5:30 a.m.

The bullet had gone through the metal at the rear of the car, hit her high in the back and stopped just under the skin of her chest.

Sheriff Britton said Barkley told of drinking at Chiloquin until 1 a.m., of going later to Modoc Point and still later of going to Beaver Marsh with Cress. That would have required them to pass the point where Crawford said he heard the “popping” noises, Britton said.

Beaver Marsh is about 50 miles from that point. The sheriff said Barkley admitted getting into a fight with Cress and shooting him.

1958 SEP 07 – The Victoria Advocate – Bullet Kills Woman in Moving Car (Mrs. Carl Fredrickson)

Mrs. Carl Helen Frances Fredrickson, 47, Minneapolis, who was reported accidentally shot to death Friday while riding in a car with relatives near Bend Ore., was a sister of Carl Wokasch of Evergreen township, across the Otter Tail county line in Becker County.

As will be remembered she was riding back to Bend after a visit with a son at San Diego.

She had gone west to visit a son Roger, 17, stationed in San Diego, and then went north to visit two sisters. She was on her way to visit one of her sisters, when the fatal shooting occurred. A suspect, Myron Barkley of Chiloquin, Ore., admitted killing his half brother in an early morning fracas, the homicide having taken place in the same area where Mrs. Fredrickson was killed by a stray bullet. She was a daughter of the late John Wokasch, and her brother, Carl, still lives on the home farm in Becker county.

1958 SEP 11 – Former Becker Woman Killed (Mrs. Carl Frederickson)

See also: 1958 SEP 11 – Bend Bulletin – Gunshot Victims Relatives Return

Mr. Wokasch was born April 9, 1885 in New Ulm, moving with his parents to Elm Creek township.

He was married in Fairmont Aug. 30, 1908 to Hilma Elfert.

For many years he was a tinsmith and plumber for the former Houghtaling and Could Hardware in Fairmont, later operating his own poultry business.

Surviving are his wife and a son and daughter, Floyd Wokasch and Mrs. Alvin Ring, both of Fairmont. There are six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. A brother, Henry, also resides in Fairmont.

Olson Funeral Home of Fairmont will be in charge of funeral arrangements which have not been completed.

He was born Jan. 4, 1974, in Detroit Lakes, Minn. He grew up near Frazee and graduated from Frazee High School in 1992. He attended the North Dakota State College of Science, Wahpeton, then worked for BTD in Detroit Lakes and Audubon (Minn.) Engineering. On June 21, 1997, he married Jessi Puttbrese near Frazee.

He is survived by his wife; his parents, John and Elaine Wokasch, Frazee; four brothers, Greg (Shelly), John Jr., both Frazee, Marty, Detroit Lakes, Robert (Paula), Badger, Minn.; a sister, Rebecca (Mike) Morris, Rochert, Minn.; and grandmothers, Leila Wokasch, Detroit Lakes, Lenora Golkowski, Frazee, Alice Puttbrese, Rochert.

Visitation: Sunday from 4 to 8, with a prayer service at 7, in Furey Funeral Home, Frazee, and one hour before the funeral in the church.

Funeral: Monday at 3 in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Evergreen near Frazee.

Burial: Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Frazee.

Jessie Wokasch of 1704 Williams St. died at St. Peter’s Community Hospital early Monday morning after an illness of several weeks. She was 70.

Born in Marysville Jan. 13, 1915, to William and Anna Williams, she attended schools in Marysville and in Helena.

She married Lloyd Wokasch in Helena on Oct. 8, 1936. They made their home in Helena since 1942.

Mrs. Wokasch was a member of the Marysville Pioneers.

Surviving is her husband; a daughter, Wanda Lee Powers of Freemont, Calif.; four brothers, Russell and Will Williams of Helena, Charles of Fairfield and Roger of Sequim, Wash.; three sisters Gladys Wendstrom and Helen Smigaj, both of Helena, and Lottie Rector of Pendleton, Ore.; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral arrangements are pending at Retz Funeral Home.

HELENA INDEPENDENT RECORD — 4/16/1985

Jessie Wokasch pallbearers
Funeral services for Jessie Wokasch will be conducted Thursday at 11 am at the Retz Funeral Chapel with the REv. George Harper officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Mrs. Wokasch died early Monday morning at St. Peter’s Community Hospital. She was 70.

Pallbearers will be Gary Smigaj, Bill Whyte, George and Don Larson, Ronnie Schatz and Bob O’Connell.

Duane E. Wokasch of rural Cass Lake died July 28, 1999, at his home.

Funeral services were held Aug. 2 at the Minnesota State Veteran’s Cemetery Chapel in rural Little Falls, MN with the Rev. Gerald Algers officiating. Interment was at the Minnesota State Veteran’s cemetery with military honors by the Brainerd American Legion Post.

He was born March 27, 1933, in Fairmont, MN, the son of Floyd and Harriet (Kessler) Wokasch. He was raised and educated in Fairmont. He enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict and served in Korea with Company “G” of the 31st Infantry. He married Mary Ann Gunderson on Sept 18, 1954, in Jackson, MN. They moved to Minneapolis where he managed a finance office. In 1969, they moved to Buffalo Lake where he was employed by the Gronseth Telephone Company in advertising sales for the Yellow Pages telephone directory. They moved to the Cass Lake area in 1980. He retired in 1990. They made their home near Birch Ridge Resort on Leech Lake. He helped organize Ottertail Peninsula into a township. He was a member of the Ottertail Peninsula Township Board, serving as supervisor in 1987 to 1990.

He enjoyed the outdoors and loved to hunt, fish and go wild ricing; and he also loved to cook.

He was a lifetime member of the Sebeka American Legion.

He is survived by a daughter, Patricia (Neil) Burgstahler of Stewart, MN; three sons: Thomas (Gail Leese) Wokasch of East Dubuque, IL., Michael (Barbara) Wokasch of East Olive, MI, and 1SG Mark Wokasch of Fort Drum, NY; a sister, Janice Hudson of Fairmont, MN; two grandchildren, Elisa and Rilee; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his wife on Oct 12, 1995; his parents; a brother, Robert; and a sister, Delores.

Mrs. Wokasch was born on Feb. 15, 1902 to Frank and Antonia (Levenez) Doubek in Rice Lake.

She was a retiree of Char-Lynn and a member of many singing groups in the Minneapolis area, the last being the Happy Re-treads.
Survivors include two sons, Russell and William; four daughters, Elizabeth Edlund, Rita Wokasch, Donna Wiese and Margaret Pfeifer; and 23 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and a great-great-grandchild. She is also survived by nieces and nephews in the Rice Lake area. Her husband, William Wokasch, died in 1949.

That portion of the city east of Second Avenue, between Seventieth and Ninetieth Streets, is populated by large numbers of working people about whose poverty not much has been said heretofore, because they have struggled bravely against misfortune, and have made their wants known only when starvation and eviction stared them in the face.  It is the district where most of the cigars produced in New York are made–the tenement-house cigar shop district, where thousands of men, women, and children are huddled together, making cheap cigars by day and by night, and inhaling a heavy, rank atmosphere.

Miss E. Wells, Principal of the Jones Memorial School, at 417 East Seventy-third Street, has written to the Business Men’s Committee of the Industrial Christian Alliance, saying that the opening of a people’s restaurant and cheap grocery store would be very beneficial in that district, where hundreds of families are without any work, and have very little relief.  From Seventieth to Seventy-eight Street, east of Second Avenue, there are large numbers of working people, chiefly Bohemian cigarmakers, who are suffering from the effects of strikes.  Many families are in debt for the necessaries of life.  Their rents are long overdue, and the tradesmen feel discouraged by the inability of the people to meet their obligations.  Miss Wells has in her school nearly 500 children from the poorest families.  Over 300 of them are fed daily at the school, and the meals they get there are the only good ones that they eat during the day.  She wishes the committee to send some one to investigate her statements.

1894 MAR 3 – New York Times – Distress on the East Side.

Funeral services were held Oct. 16 at the Cease Family Funeral Home in Cass Lake with the Rev. Gerald Algers officiating. Interment will be at the Minnesota State Veteran’s Cemetery in Little Falls, MN.

She was born on Oct. 5, 1933, at Wallingford, Iowa the daughter of Alfred and Helene Gunderson. Her father died when she was 2 years old. Her mother later married Mark Husby, who became her stepfather.

They moved to Jackson, MN where she was raised and educated, graduating from Jackson H. S. in 1951. She attended Business College in Iowa.

She married Duane Wokasch on Sept. 18, 1954 in Jackson. They moved to Minneapolis where she worked as a secretary at the Public Health Center.

They moved to Buffalo Lake, MN in 1969 where she worked at the Buffalo Lake Nursing Home and also the school district. In 1980, they moved to the Cass Lake area, residing on Leech Lake.

She is survived by her husband, Duane of Cass Lake; three sons; Thomas (Gail) Wokasch of Camano Island, Wash., Michael (Barbara) Wokasch of Holland, Michigan, and Mark Wokasch of Ft. Hood, Texas; and a daughter, Patricia (Neil) Burgstahler of Stewart, MN.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, Helen Davies, and three brothers: Leroy, Sherman and Alan.

Frank and Mary's Wedding Photo

FRAZEE — Frank S. Henn, 88, died Wednesday evening at St. Mary’s Hospital in Detroit Lakes.

Mr. Henn was born in New Jersey Dec. 26, 1873, and had lived in the Frazee vicinity since 1907. He was married to Mary Schmitz at the St. Joesph Catholic church near Perham Nov. 4, 1897. She preceded him in death in 1926.

Surviving are three sonds, George of Frazee; Alex of Perham; Leo of Little Falls; and five daughters, Mrs. C. W. (Louise) Bradshaw, Sacramenta; Mrs. O. Ben (Ann) Olson, Barnesville; Mrs. Gordon (Hilda) Nunn, Frazee; Mrs. Ray (Katherine) Katze, Deer Creek; and Mrs. Milo (Madelon) Huntley, Minneapolis; also three sisters, Mrs. Clara Berger and Mrs. Catherine Wokasch, both of Frazee; and Mrs. Elizabeth Alzheimer, Collins, Mont.; and one brother, Carl of Frazee. there are 18 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren left to cherish his memory. One son William died in 1956.

Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 15, at the Sacred Heart church of which he was a member. The Rev. Fr. Monsignor Adam Junghans will officiate. Rosary will be at eight Friday evening at the Sacred Heart church. Friends may call all day Friday until 7 p.m. at the Miller Funeral Chapel in Frazee. Interment Saturday will be in the church cemetery.

1961 JUL 13 – Daily Journal – Frank S. Henn dies at age of 88

HAND CAUGHT IN CORNHUSKER

Employee in Fairmont Canning Company Badly Injured—Hand Remains in Machine Until Apparatus Is Taken Apart.

Fairmont, Aug 20 —Elmer Wokasch Fairmont canning company employee, suffered a badly crushed left thumb and torn left hand late Tuesday at plant No 2 when the hand was caught m a corn husking machine.

Officials feared Wokasch’s hand had been torn off in the gears of the machine and advised that it not be removed until doctors arrived.

Medical men supervised work of taking the husker apart while Wokasch gritted his teeth but withstood the intense pain. He was taken to the clinic weak from shock and released this morning Doctors thought he would regain full use of the hand in about two weeks.

1931 August 20, Evening Tribune.

2 Fairmont Women Die In Car-Truck Collision

MANKATO, Minn. (AP)—Two Fairmont, Minn., women, mother and daughter, were killed today in the grinding headon collision of their car and a heavily loaded truck. Killed were Delores A. Wokasch, 34, a Fairmont telephone operator, and her mother, Harriet, 53. Mrs. Floyd Wokasch.

The two had spent the night in St. Peter, Minn., and left for Fairmont early in the morning, with the daughter driving. Miss Wokasch, a telephone worker for 16 years, was due at her switchboard at 7 a.m. — about 1 1/2 hours after the crash occurred.

The women had driven to St. Peter Wednesday. Miss Wokasch’s birthday, and had decorated graves for Memorial Day.

They stayed overnight at the St. Peter home of Mrs. Wokasch’s sister, Mrs. Harold Hudson.

Their car, and a truck carrying 44,000 pounds of watermelons collided about 5-20 a.m. on Highway 60 about a half mile southwest of the Highway 169 intersection.

The truck driver, Robert F. Agard, 31, Haines City, Fla., escaped injury.

Coroner Wallace E. Mathews said Delores Wokasch was pinned in the wreckage. Police said the Wokasch car was hurled back 82 feet by the impact and landed in the ditch.

The truck trailer crashed in the ditch on one side of the road and the tractor section plunged into the ditch on the opposite side. The car was traveling southwest, apparently headed for Fairmont.

The deaths raised the Minnesota highway toll to 282, compared with 270 through this date a year ago.

1964 May 28, The Evening Tribune.

Two are killed near Mankato
MANKATO, “Minn. (AP) – Harriet Wokasch, 63, and Delores Wokasch, 34, of Fairmont Minn., were killed Thursday in a car-truck collision five mile; south of here on Highway 60.

The truck, loaded with 44,000 pounds of watermelons, was driven by Robert Agard, 31, of Florida. He was not hurt.

1964 May 28 – Mason City Globe

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) – An Oklahoma truck driver was acquitted
Wednesday of an proper highway lane use charge growing out of a fatal accident near Mankato.

A municipal court jury deliberated 30 minutes before bringing in an innocent verdict for Robert F. Agard, 31, Muskogee, Okla.

Agard drove a semitrailer truck that collided with a car last Friday. Mrs. Floyd Wokasch, 53, Fairmont, and her daughter, Delores, 34, were killed.
Agard testified he crossed the center line only after seeing the Wokasch car coming directly at him in his lane.

1964 June 05 – Winona Daily News – Driver cleared in Mankato Crash

Pfc. Martin Wokasch, serial number 37030093, was killed in action in Manila, the Philippines on January 22, 1945.

Other Wokasch family members that have served:

• Ignatius Adam Wokasch
• Ignatz Wokasch
• George Ignatz Wokasch
• Thomas P. Wokasch, private
• Arthur Wokasch, Corporal
• Adolph John Wokasch
• Benjamin John Wokasch
• Frank Wokasch
• Conrad Wokasch
• Duane E. Wokasch, US Army, SGT
• Mark Wokasch, 1st Sgt
• Russell F. Wokasch
• Wenzel Wokasch
• Wesley Wokasch
• Timothy Wokasch
• William Wokasch

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A few miles down the road cameras again began clicking with three gold prospectors as their subjects. These gentlemen were employed by the Yukon Gold Corporation to test sidecreeks of the Delta River in order to determine whether or not the area would be worth large-scale operations. The Yukon company expects to put in a big dragline here but will have spent $3000-4000 conducting tests such as this before any amount of gold is taken out.

The gentleman wearing long boots is Lloyd Wokasch, 37, of Helena, Mont., who commented that after all this posing he probably could get a job in Hollywood as a stand-in for Gene Autry’s horse. Lloyd formerly worked for the Caird Engineering Works in Helena, and came to Alaska last May, with his brother, Leonard, by driving up the Alcan with a truckload of mining machinery intended for the Yukon company’s Delta River project. The two had done a little mining in Montana and had always wanted to see Alaska, so they took a testing job for the summer.

Leonard, 27, still wearing his OD pants, spent four years with the 43rd Division, as a private, and fought his way from New Guinea to Tokyo. He plans to return to Montana next fall but may come back in 1947 to do some prospecting on his own. “There are thousands of acres the old-timers never touched,” he says. “They couldn’t have found all the gold in Alaska. Now we’ve got roads so we can drive farther into the bush, taking more equipment and staying in longer. Besides, at least we know now a lot of places where not to look.” Len says it costs $3-4000 to outfit and prospect for one summer in Alaska, and even if you hit some colors you’ll probably have to come back again & again to show enough to attract the interest of a mining company. The profit, of course, comes not from what you pan but from the sale or lease of land in which you can prove there is paying gold.

(Pages 107-108).
Download a copy of these pages: The official diary of the Sweet-Wilson Expedition

WOKASCH, Lloyd, H. age 89, formerly of Helena. Graveside services will be at 2pm. Tuesday at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Friends may pay their respects at Retz Funeral home Monday from 2:00-8:00 pm. Memorials may be made to Marysvil
2 CONC le Pioneer Society, Marysville, MT, 59640.

Lloyd Wokasch
Lloyd H. Wokasch, age 89, died July 1, 1998, in Port Angeles, Washington.

Llody was born on March 24, 1909, in Hymore, South Dakota, to Joseph and Wilhemina (Elfert) Wokash [sic]. After attending schools in Fairmont, Minnesota, Lloyd moved to Montana in 1935.

Lloyd married Hessie [ed: Jessie?] Williams of Marysville in 1936. He worked at the Schatz Ranch, Marysville Mines, Caird Engineering and Armour Metals as a machinist. Lloyd did custom rock picking in the Helena area after his retirement. Lloyd moved to Sequim, Washington, in 1994 to be with his daughter and son-in-law.

Lloyd is preceded in death by his spouse, his parents, a brother, Leonard, and a sister, Luverna. Survivors include his daughter and son-in-law Wanda and Kenneth Power of Sequim, Washington; a sister Pearl Barnett, of Fergus Falls, Minnesota; two grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Visitation will be held at Retz Funeral Home Monday from 2 to 8 pm. Graveside services will be held at Sunset Memorial Gardens Tuesday at 2pm.

Memorial contributions may be made to Marysville Pioneer Society, Marysville, MT, 595604.

Mrs. Minnie Catherine Wokasch, 79, of 615 No. Hampton St. died Sunday noon at the Fairmont Community Hospital. Death was due to a stroke.

Mrs. Wokasch had been in failing health for the past year, suffering a stroke Dec. 3. She has been hospitalized since.

Mrs. Wokasch was born March 15 , 1887 in Clayton Center, Iowa. Mrs. Wokasch moved with her parents to Minnesota and Martin County as a child, the family settling in Westford Township.

She married Joseph Wokasch March 19, 1908 in Fairmont. They spent their first two years of marriage in Highmore, S.D. then they returned to Martin County and farmed near Granada until 1918 when they moved to Fairmont. She has resided here since Mr. Wokasch died in August 1952.

Mrs. Wokasch was a member of the St. John’s United Church of Christ, its Ladies Aid, the Royal Neighbors and the Woman’s Relief Corps.

Surviving are four children, Lloyd of Helena, Mont., Miss Luverna Wokasch and Leonard of Fairmont and Mrs. Albert Barnett of Mankato; four grand-children and four sisters, Mrs. Thomas Wokasch, Mrs. Lenore Hoppe, Mrs. Herbert Maloof Fairmont and Mrs. Clude Curry of Portland, Ore.

Funeral services will be 2pm Wednesday at the St. John’s United Church of Christ. Burial will be at Fairview Memorial Park.

Visitation at the Olson Funeral home is from Tuesday until time of family services at 1pm Wednesday.

Mr. Wokasch died of cancer Sunday at Fairmont Community Hospital. He had been in failing health for six months.

Friends may call at Olson Funeral Home today and until 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Both Nov. 9, 1907 in Westford Township, Mr. Wokasch attended Granada and Fairmont schools. He married Ruth Becker Dec. 12, 1952 in Fairmont, and was employed by Fairmont Railway Motors for 45 years, retiring in 1972.

Survivors include his wife; one daughter and one son, Mrs. Gary Drennen of Dallas, Texas, and Roger, a home.

Mrs. Wokasch’s Funeral Rites Held Here Today

Funeral services were held this afternoon at Fairmont St. John’s E & R church for Mrs. Henry Wokasch, 1017 N. Prairie avenue. She died Friday at Fairmont Community hospital following a stroke suffered the previous day.

Amanda M. Elfert was born Feb. 9, 1885, at Elkander, Ia., coming to Rutland township as a child with her parents, William and Bertha Elfert.

She was married to Henry Wokasch March 1, 1904 at the West Rutland church. They farmed until 1921 when they moved to Fairmont.

Surviving are her husband and one son, Elmer, of Fairmont. There ae two grandchildren. Five sisters are Mrs. Joe Wokasch, Mrs. Tom Wokasch, Mrs. Herbert Malo, Mrs. Lenore Hoppe, all of Fairmont, and Mrs. Claude Curry of Portland, Ore.

Services at 2pm today were conducted by the Rev. Harry Stroessner, pastor of St. John’s and burial was in Fairmont Fairview Memorial park. Olson funeral home of Fairmont was in charge of arrangements.