OBITUARY
Death of William August Braatz
William August Braatz, 71, Witoka carpenter, died at 11:55 p.m. Sunday at his home after an illness of three weeks.
He was born June 1, 1870, in Ridgeway, Pleasant Hill Township, and had lived in Winona County all of his life.
He married Luella Hamann 36 years ago last April.
Survivors are his wife; eight sons: Harold, Wilmer, Charles and Earl, Winona, and Arthur, Clarence, Franklin and Robert at home; six daughters: Mrs. Arthur Klagge, Mrs. Roy Rose and Mrs. Frank Kunda, Winona; Mrs. Arthur Dionysius, Lamoille, and Betty and Marian at home; eight grandchildren; one brother, Charles Braatz, Winona, and five sisters: Mrs. Paul Timm, Mrs. Edward Farnholtz, and Miss Anna Braatz, Winona; Mrs. Charles McNally, Pleasant Hill Township, and Mrs. George Davis, Pickwick.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Fawcett-Hillyer Funeral Chapel.
Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Friends may call at the chapel on Tuesday evening and at anytime on Wednesday.
(Died at home in Witoka, Wilson Township, Winona, Minnesota at the age of 71. He is buried next to his wife, Luella Cecilia (Hamann) Braatz in Woodlawn Cemetery, Winona, Minnesota.)
OBITUARY
Death of William August Braatz
William August Braatz, 71, Witoka carpenter, died at 11:55 p.m. Sunday at his home after an illness of three weeks.
He was born June 1, 1870, in Ridgeway, Pleasant Hill Township, and had lived in Winona County all of his life.
He married Luella Hamann 36 years ago last April.
Survivors are his wife; eight sons: Harold, Wilmer, Charles and Earl, Winona, and Arthur, Clarence, Franklin and Robert at home; six daughters: Mrs. Arthur Klagge, Mrs. Roy Rose and Mrs. Frank Kunda, Winona; Mrs. Arthur Dionysius, Lamoille, and Betty and Marian at home; eight grandchildren; one brother, Charles Braatz, Winona, and five sisters: Mrs. Paul Timm, Mrs. Edward Farnholtz, and Miss Anna Braatz, Winona; Mrs. Charles McNally, Pleasant Hill Township, and Mrs. George Davis, Pickwick.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Fawcett-Hillyer Funeral Chapel.
Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Friends may call at the chapel on Tuesday evening and at anytime on Wednesday.
(Died at home in Witoka, Wilson Township, Winona, Minnesota at the age of 71. He is buried next to his wife, Luella Cecilia (Hamann) Braatz in Woodlawn Cemetery, Winona, Minnesota.)
Family Members
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Arthur William Braatz
1907–1943
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Harold Louis Braatz
1908–1959
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Margaret Marie Helen Braatz Rose
1910–1969
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Wilmer Earl Braatz
1912–1952
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Earl Leroy "Ole" Braatz
1914–1999
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Helen Florence Anna Braatz Kunda
1916–1968
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Charles Leonard "Charlie" Braatz
1917–1961
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Dorothy Irene Braatz Klagge
1918–1978
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Clarence Elroy Braatz
1920–1970
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Florence Bessie Braatz Dionysius
1921–1993
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Robert Wayne Braatz Sr
1922–1994
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Marian Luella Braatz Johnson
1924–1989
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Betty Jane Braatz Czaplewski
1925–1987
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Franklin Braatz
1927–1948
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