OBITUARIES:  Elzear DeMARS, Rice Lake, Barron County, WI

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Elzear Demars/Demers (son of Pierre Zoel Demers and Celanire Robarge)

From Rice Lake Chronotype, Nov. 28, 1979

HL: Former Councilman Elzear DeMars Dies

 "Rice Lake's "Mayor of the South Side," Elzear L. Demars, who served 16 
years as alderman representing the Seventh Ward on the city council until 
his retirement in 1973, died Sunday morning at Lakeview Medical Center, 
after suffering an apparent heart attack at his home Saturday night.  
Funeral services were held Wednesday morning from St. Joseph's Catholic 
church with Rev. William Horath officiating, and burial was made in the 
church cemetery.

 Mr. Demars - proud of his 89 years service to the community in a variety 
of occupations - had continued active even in retirement, although he 
reluctantly surrendered his drivers license earlier this year.  He was 
born Aug. 25, 1890, at Dobie, and had come to Rice Lake as a youngster 
to work in various jobs around the city until establishing his own farm 
on the east side of the lake early in the century.

 Later he was also local manager for the Farmers Union Co-op Oil Co., and 
the representative of several mutual insurance companies in the area.  He 
entered politics in 1957, succeeding Lee Patraw as alderman for the seventh 
ward, and continued as the principal spokesman for the south side until 
his retirement.  He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic 
Order of Foresters, the Moose lodge and the Rice Lake Senior Citizens Center.

 He was married in 1914 to the former Lena Wille, who preceded him in death 
in 1966, and in 1968 married Tillie Black, who survives him.  Other 
survivors include two daughters, Lucille Zabel and Valores Mazel of Rice 
Lake, a stepson, Louis Black of Chetek and two step daughters, Leona 
Trafford of Kenosha and Merlyn Bickford of Brookfield, as well as 16 
grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.  There are two sisters, Alice 
LaBrie and Victoria Chartier, both of Rice Lake."