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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1965
Page
8
A weather brief notes a fair and cooler night with low in the 50s and a cooler Tuesday with highs mainly in the 70s. Monroe region also expected to be fair and cooler tonight with similar Tuesday cloudiness and cooler temperatures.
Last week high 66 and low 53. Since Saturday noon high 90 and low 63. Year ago today high 72 and low 57. Rainfall since Saturday 1 p.m. .04 inch. Sunrise 5 15. Sunset 8 51.
Monroe police report details Peter A. Steinmann of Route 3 forfeiting $20 for inattentive driving in a minor traffic violation.
Paul Alfred Busch aged 53 and Irma Phyllis Helmeid aged 43, both residents of Monroe, filed an application in Freeport for a marriage petition.
Death notices recount ages and hometowns for Lawrence Sharer 94 Monroe Nanette Mari Gerber infant daughter of Donavon Gerber 170242 16th Street Steven Scott Bowman 4 Winslow Garfield E. Batten 84 Ridgeway Mrs John Harker 99 Viota Frank Mooney 69 Orangeville Arthur G. Raiche 84 Milwaukee Arthur Charles Paul 81 Durrand fr Celia M Cary 88 Darlington Aaron J. Viken 71 Evans Mrs Lewis Thorson 81 Mt Horeb Mrs Lillie Wolf 78 rural Muscoda Fred G Kradolfer 27 Milwaukee
Mr and Mrs Daniel Adams of Orangeville report a daughter born June 28. Mr and Mrs Duane Wilde of 1614% 11th St report a daughter born June 27. Mr and Mrs Edward Kenni of 1307% 19th St report a son born in June.
Names of patients and staff associated with St. Clare Hospital include Mrs. Isa Bechtolt Mrs. Emma Schmidli and many others listed under Medical and Dismissals with addresses in Belleville Whitewater Janesville Pecatonica Capron Rockford Monticello Kieler Juda and South Beloit plus others. The note records admissions and dismissals across multiple individuals in a single hospital update.
Gary Ray Amacher, 12, son of Mr and Mrs Lindolph Amacher of Route 4, was run over by a tractor causing back and pelvis injuries and abdominal contusions. He was admitted to St. Clare at 4 20 p m Saturday and his condition is listed as good.
Lawrence Sharer 94 a Monroe resident until 1961 moving to a Brodhead nursing home died there Saturday after a heart attack. He was a retired carpenter who farmed near Monroe before moving into the city. Born June 21 1871 in Jordan Township he married Susanna Dorr July 27 1890. Surviving are three daughters 11 grandchildren 42 great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren. Services will be held tomorrow at 9 in the Newcomer Funeral Home Monroe and 9 30 at St Victor's Church with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Rosary at 8 tonight.
Stanley Stover won first in the 10,000 lb class of the Browntown Firemen’s Festival tractor pulling event. Bud Eismann took the 8,000 lb class and Mike Althoff won the 6,500 lb class. Sixty-five tractors competed. proceeds fund Browntown Fire Department equipment and supplies.
Excavation began last week on a new 68 by 74 foot fire station to house six pieces of equipment. The facility will include an office, meeting room, kitchen, shower and clean-up rooms. The station serves Shullsburg and White Oak townships and parts of Gratiot Monticello Seymour and New Diggings townships.
Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Nell Schoenfield 82 died Friday held this morning at 9 in Stnessy Funeral Home and 9:30 at St Vic C MecCollow officiated burial in Calvary Cemetery Rosary was at 8 last night pallbearers William Heeren Ray Fritz Mark Keegan Leo Gille Sr Edmund Shook Bernard Gibbons
Personal mentions list Milwaukee visitors to Albany and a Midwest Legion picnic at Recreation Park. Edna Peterson travels to Oshkosh for her mother Hannah Hable’s illness and surgery. Families from Hanover Illinois to Rochester Minnesota attend pageant events and plant visits, with others traveling from Susanville California and Dallas Texas for graduation and family gatherings.
The article lists numerous breeders and participants from Wisconsin towns such as New Glarus Monroe and Cadiz showing Holstein and Brown Swiss cattle. It names winners in junior and senior categories including heifers calves bull and yearling classes and notes judges Dave Dixon and Marlowe Nelson from UW and Tri-State Breeders Co op.
A Bowman youth from Route 2 Winslow Illinois died yesterday morning at St. Clare Hospital ten minutes after admission as a medical patient. He was admitted at 10 30 am and died at 10 40 am An autopsy was held Committal services will be held at 10 am tomorrow in Evergreen Cemetery Han over Illinois Memorial services are planned for Wednesday evening at Grace Bible Church Winslow with Rev Vernon Shuman officiating The child was born November 4 1960 in Savanna City Hospital, son of Clyde and Sharon Bowman Surviving are the parents and six brothers and sisters and the maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Louis Fletcher Nadig Funeral Home Han over is handling arrangements
Garfield Batten died yesterday in a Madison hospital after a long illness. Arrangements are being made at the Roach Mindermann Funeral Home in Dodgeville.
Near Saigon's airport a twin engine C123 transport was shot down by guerrillas 13 miles east of the city. Sixteen bodies were recovered. An Air Force officer and an enlisted man were reported killed under secrecy. Sightings said the plane hit a farmhouse. One source claimed 20 Americans were aboard and killed.
Rio Wis centennial celebration ended in high winds that toppled tents injuring about six people. A parade earlier featured lifelong resident Thomas R Johnson, also aged 100, as the weekend's kickoff.
Film actor Steve Cochran, 48, died aboard his 40 foot schooner Rogue off Champerico Guatemala from a lung infection. Autopsy by Dr Abel Giron verified death and noted paralysis though lab results awaited. Three Mexican women aboard testified Cochran died June 15 after becoming paralyzed and limited to head movement.
Frank Meyer a 20 year old Milwaukee youth was rescued by a Coast Guard crew after clinging to his overturned 14 foot boat in Lake Michigan. He was taken to Milwaukee County Hospital for exposure and treatment after the boat capsized near midnight off the South Side Yacht Club as high winds drove the craft three miles from shore.
Rev William Dushek named pastor of Grace Methodist Church Belleville succeeding Rev Reid Gilbert who moved to India with his family. Dushek a Garret Theological Seminary student and UW 1963 graduate, is native of Lodi with wife and eight month old son David.
Mrs Isa Bechtelt 86 of 722 16th Ave reportedly broke her hip in a fall Saturday night at home. She was admitted to St Clare Hospital at 1 10 p m yesterday.
Joseph Ripp son of Mr and Mrs Donald F Ripp of 1403 Ninth Street suffered a deep gash above the knee when he struck a bench while running outside the pool at Recreation Park. He received 26 stitches at St Clare Hospital and was released the same night. He will be confined at home about two weeks.
Mrs. Emma Schmidli, 73, of Belleville, is listed in good condition at St. Clare Hospital after an auto accident. She was admitted at 5:15 p.m. yesterday with a fractured arm and possible internal injuries.
Brodhead resident Howard Rupert Berra, 43, was admitted to St. Clare Hospital at 11:20 a.m. Saturday with a flying object embedded in his foot. He is listed in good condition.
Justice Tom C. Clark declined to issue a nationwide injunction blocking the construction of a steam power plant on the St. Croix River at Oak Park Heights Minnesota. The decision leaves the project’s fate to ongoing state and federal reviews and potential lawsuits.
Nanette Marie Gerber nine day old daughter of Mr and Mrs Donavon Gerber died at 11 35 last night in St Clare Hospital after a short illness an infection was fatal. She was born at St Clare hospital June 18. Surviving are the parents paternal grandfather and grandmother maternal grandparents and great grandparents. Services will be held 3 pm tomorrow at Stuessy Funeral Home with Rev Roy Berg officiating. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
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