OBITUARIES:  Henry CROTTEAU, Rice Lake, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Kent Robarge <crowbah@comcast.net>  03 August 2007
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From Wed., March 29, 1972 Rice Lake Chronotype (Rice Lake, Barron Co., WI)

Double Tragedy Strikes Family Here Saturday
  A four year old girl was the victim of a tractor mishap Saturday afternoon in rural Rice Lake, and a double note of tragedy in the family was struck later the same afternoon when her grandfather died suddenly of a heart attack here.
  Julie Ann Saffert, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Saffert of Rt. 4 was riding a tractor with her father to haul a load of manure to the fields when she fell from the seat and a wheel of the machine passed over her.  She died a few hours later at Lakeside hospital in Rice Lake.
  Victim of a heart attack was Henry Crotteau, 85, of 209 W. Marshall st., Rice Lake.
  Joint funeral services for the child and her grandfather were held Tuesday morning at St. Joseph's Catholic church in the city.  Rev. James Dabruzzi officiated, and burial was in the church cemetery.
  Julie Ann was born Oct. 16, 1967 in Rice Lake.  She is survived by her parents, her grandmother, Elsa Crotteau; four sisters, Janet Wuethrich, Ella Mae, Marlene and Lynette, all of Rice Lake; and six brothers, Daniel, Stephen, Kevin, Bernard and Edward, all at home, and Larry of Bloomer.
  Mr. Crotteau was born in Rice Lake, Feb. 9, 1887, the son of a pioneer family in the area.  He farmed in the town of Rice Lake until retirement about 20 years ago.
  He is survived by his wife, the former Eliza Demers; five sons, Lloyd, Ray and Robert of Rice Lake, Norman of Kasper, Wyo. and Henry, jr. of New Brighton, Minn.; and five daughters, Lucille Saffert, Bernice Saffert and Cecilia Heldstab of Rice Lake, Edna Demers of Anaheim, Calif. and Mary Jane McGarvey of Waupaca.  There are 55 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.