Young Plain Farmer Fatally Injured.
By our Plain Corr.
Clarence Alt, energetic young farmer of the Plain community, was fatally injured late Monday afternoon when struck by a falling tree.
He and a companion, Walter Ferstl, were felling a tree; a limb of which struck him on the head causing a skull fracture. He was immediately rushed to the Richland Center hospital where he passed away the following afternoon.
The young man was only 27 years old and is survived by his wife and six months old daughter [son] and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Alt, two brothers, Ludwig, Muscoda and Herman at home, and one sister, Mrs. Howard Pretch of Big Hollow. Funeral services were held this morning at St. Luke's Chapel at Plain.
Obituary source: Weekly Home News, Spring Green, Sauk Co., WI, March 18, 1937, page 1, col. 4.
Correction on the obit: Clarence was survived by a 6-month old son (Marvin), not daughter.
Clarence Alt's wife was Caroline Ferstl. They were married October 15, 1935, in Plain, Sauk County, Wisconsin. After Clarence's death in 1937, Caroline remarried to Raymond George Ederer on November 26, 1938, in Plain, Wisconsin; they had two children.
By our Plain Corr.
Clarence Alt, energetic young farmer of the Plain community, was fatally injured late Monday afternoon when struck by a falling tree.
He and a companion, Walter Ferstl, were felling a tree; a limb of which struck him on the head causing a skull fracture. He was immediately rushed to the Richland Center hospital where he passed away the following afternoon.
The young man was only 27 years old and is survived by his wife and six months old daughter [son] and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Alt, two brothers, Ludwig, Muscoda and Herman at home, and one sister, Mrs. Howard Pretch of Big Hollow. Funeral services were held this morning at St. Luke's Chapel at Plain.
Obituary source: Weekly Home News, Spring Green, Sauk Co., WI, March 18, 1937, page 1, col. 4.
Correction on the obit: Clarence was survived by a 6-month old son (Marvin), not daughter.
Clarence Alt's wife was Caroline Ferstl. They were married October 15, 1935, in Plain, Sauk County, Wisconsin. After Clarence's death in 1937, Caroline remarried to Raymond George Ederer on November 26, 1938, in Plain, Wisconsin; they had two children.
Young Plain Farmer Fatally Injured.
By our Plain Corr.
Clarence Alt, energetic young farmer of the Plain community, was fatally injured late Monday afternoon when struck by a falling tree.
He and a companion, Walter Ferstl, were felling a tree; a limb of which struck him on the head causing a skull fracture. He was immediately rushed to the Richland Center hospital where he passed away the following afternoon.
The young man was only 27 years old and is survived by his wife and six months old daughter [son] and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Alt, two brothers, Ludwig, Muscoda and Herman at home, and one sister, Mrs. Howard Pretch of Big Hollow. Funeral services were held this morning at St. Luke's Chapel at Plain.
Obituary source: Weekly Home News, Spring Green, Sauk Co., WI, March 18, 1937, page 1, col. 4.
Correction on the obit: Clarence was survived by a 6-month old son (Marvin), not daughter.
Clarence Alt's wife was Caroline Ferstl. They were married October 15, 1935, in Plain, Sauk County, Wisconsin. After Clarence's death in 1937, Caroline remarried to Raymond George Ederer on November 26, 1938, in Plain, Wisconsin; they had two children.
By our Plain Corr.
Clarence Alt, energetic young farmer of the Plain community, was fatally injured late Monday afternoon when struck by a falling tree.
He and a companion, Walter Ferstl, were felling a tree; a limb of which struck him on the head causing a skull fracture. He was immediately rushed to the Richland Center hospital where he passed away the following afternoon.
The young man was only 27 years old and is survived by his wife and six months old daughter [son] and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Alt, two brothers, Ludwig, Muscoda and Herman at home, and one sister, Mrs. Howard Pretch of Big Hollow. Funeral services were held this morning at St. Luke's Chapel at Plain.
Obituary source: Weekly Home News, Spring Green, Sauk Co., WI, March 18, 1937, page 1, col. 4.
Correction on the obit: Clarence was survived by a 6-month old son (Marvin), not daughter.
Clarence Alt's wife was Caroline Ferstl. They were married October 15, 1935, in Plain, Sauk County, Wisconsin. After Clarence's death in 1937, Caroline remarried to Raymond George Ederer on November 26, 1938, in Plain, Wisconsin; they had two children.
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