OBITUARIES:  Celinar (Robarge) DEMERS, Rice Lake, Barron County, WI

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Celinar (Robarge) Demers (daughter of George Robarge/Roberge and Josephine 
Couture, wife of Peter Zoel Demers/Demars)

Rice Lake Chronotype Feb. 2, 1938 obituary (Rice Lake, Barron County, WI)

"Mrs. Peter Demars.  Mrs. Peter Demars, 78, passed away Thursday evening 
at her home on Newton street after a year's illness.  Funeral services were 
held Monday morning at 9:30 from St. Joseph's Catholic church with the Rev. 
B. Niggemann officiating, and burial was in the Catholic cemetery.  Mrs. 
Demars, as Celinar Robarge, was born in Quebec, Canada, April 21, 1859 and 
moved to Barron county with her parents when she was nine.  She was married 
to Peter Demars Oct. 1, 1877 at Our Lady of Lourdes church at Stanfold, now 
known as Dobie.  They lived on a farm east of Dobie until 1923 when they 
retired and moved to Rice Lake where they have lived since.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Demars celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary last October.  Thirteen 
children were born to this union, eight of whom are still living.  Mrs. 
Demars is survived by her husband; four sons, Henry, Elzear and Felix, Rice 
Lake and Louis of Chicago; four daughters, Mrs. Geo. (Alice) LaBrie, Mrs. Ed 
(Leo) Robarge, Mrs. Alex (Eveline) Demars, and Mrs. Ed (Victoria) Chartier, 
all of Rice Lake.  One son, Alex, died when 17 and Veronica when 12 and 
three children died in infancy.  J.P. Schneider & Sons were in charge of 
the funeral."