ELLSWORTH, JUDITH, RONALD SEHLOFF

Germantown Family Buried at Mishicot.
MISHICOT - Graveside funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon
at Mishicot for three members of a Germantown family who died Friday.
Burial was in Mishicot Public Cemetery.
A former Mishicot resident, his wife and 11-year-old son, Mr. and Mrs.
Ellsworth Sehloff and Ronald, were found dead Friday afternoon at their
home.
Mrs. Sehloff took her own life with carbon monoxide poisoning and the
fumes also claimed the lives of her husband and son.
Coroner Robert Boltz of Washington County said Mrs. Sehloff, 46, formerly
of Oconto, died while seated in one of two family cars parked in a closed
garage with their engines running.
Her husband, also 44, and son were found dead in bedrooms of the adjoining
fume-filled home. Boltz said investigators found three notes written by
Mrs. Sehloff which indicated she had no intention of harming members of
her family.
Mr. Sehloff was born April 1, 1924, in Manitowoc County, a son of Albert
and Leona Marquardt Sehloff. He graduated from Mishicot High School. He
was employed as a representative of Aid Association for Lutheran at
Sheboygan Falls from 1956 to July, 1966, when the family moved to
Germantown and he became general agent for Wisconsin Life Insurance Co.
with offices at Milwaukee.
Mrs. Sehloff, the former Judith Leigh, was born Oct. 8, 1924, at Oconto
and taught school at Immanuel Lutheran School, Sheboygan, for a number
of years, and was presently teaching at Milwaukee Lutheran School. Ronald
was born Dec. 15, 1957.
The Sehloff’s daughter, (private), is a freshman at Wisconsin State
University, Stevens Point.
Survivors of Mr. Sehloff (omitted for privacy). Mrs. Sehloff is also
survived by her mother, Mrs. Edna Leigh, of Oconto, three sisters and
two brothers.
Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Peter Lutheran
Church, Milwaukee.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Monday, March 31, 1969