OBITUARIES: Joseph P. MORNEAU, Rice Lake, Barron Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Submitted by: Kent Robarge 03 August 2007 ************************************************************************ Obituary of Dr. Joseph Pierre Morneau in June 10, 1920 Rice Lake Chronotype (Rice Lake, Barron Co., WI) Dr. J. P. Morneau Dr. J. P. Morneau, formerly of this city, where he was widely known and had a host of friends, died at Appleton, on June 1, of lobar pneumonia. His remains were brought to this city on Thursday, June 3, accompanied by his family and W. A. Demers and J. H. Wilz of this city, and funeral services were held the following morning from St. Joseph's church, with interment in the church cemetery. Joseph Pierre Morneau was born January 15, 1875, at St. Romauld, Levis Co., Quebec, Canada. He graduated from Medical College, Laval university, Quebec, in 1899, practiced medicine at Turtle Lake for one year and at Rice Lake for nine years, serving as city physician here for one year. In May, 1909, he removed to Appleton where he practiced until two years ago, retiring to attend to business interests. He was the inventor of the Morneau sanitary thermometer case and president of the Morneau Sanitary Thermometer Case Co. On Sept. 2, 1906, he was married to Miss Clara Demers of this city, and who with three sons, Leroy, DeWayne and Robert, and one daughter, Aurora, his father and three brothers in Canada, are left to mourn his death. A brother, Ferdinand, was killed in a mill in Canada on May 2, 1920. Dr. Morneau was of an exceptionally kind and genial disposition, which made him greatly loved by many friends who mourn his death in the prime of life.