Mary Staeffler Prueter (1862-1943) - Find a Grave Memorial

Mary Staeffler Prueter

Birth

31 Dec 1862

Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, USA

Death

1 Aug 1943 (aged 80)

Kiel, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, USA

Burial

Schleswig Cemetery

Rockville, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map

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MARY PRUETER

Mrs. Herman Prueter, 81, Of Kiel, Dies On Sunday
Mrs. Herman Prueter, 81, of 716 N. Sixth street, Kiel, passed away at her home Sunday at 1:30 p.m. after an illness of two weeks. She had been in failing health for the past several years.
Nee Miss Mary Staeffler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Staeffler, pioneer residents of the town of Schleswig, Manitowoc county, she was born Dec. 31, 1862, in the town of Schleswig.
On May 21, 1882, she was married to Herman Prueter in the town of Meeme by the late Rev. Daniel Illig. For the first three years of their married life they resided in Rockville where her husband owned and operated a blacksmith shop. In 1885 he disposed of the shop and purchased a farm in the town of Schleswig which he operated until 1919 when he turned it over to his son, Fred. They then built their present home in Kiel. Mr. Prueter died March 4, 1939.
Survivors are eight children, Mrs. Edward (Dora) Henschel and Mrs. Otto (Minnie) Hildebrandt of Kiel, Mrs. Theodore (Anita) Meyer and Louis of Town Meeme, Fred on the homestead near Rockville, Arthur of Theresa, Hugo of Green Bay, and Herman, Jr., of Manitowoc; six grand-children and four great-grandchildren; six sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Lena Selk, Mrs. Minnie Kusel, Mrs. Charles Burmeister and Fred Staeffler of Dysart, Ia., Mrs. Julia Schultz of Mitchell, S. D., Mrs. George Lindner and Mrs. W. C. Burgdorff of Kiel, Carl Staeffler of Appleton and Robert Staeffler of Edgerton, Minn.
Mr. and Mrs. Prueter celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1932 and their 55th wedding anniversary in 1937. She was a member of the Frauen Verein of the St. Peter Evangelical and Reformed church
of Kiel.