OBITUARIES: Minnie (Raawe) ROBARGE, Cameron, Barron Co., WI

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Minnie (Raawe) Robarge (wife of Lawrence Joseph Robarge)

Rice Lake Chronotype June 22, 1955 obituary (Rice Lake, Barron County, WI)

"Mrs. Minnie Robarge.  Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Robarge, 67, of 
Cameron, were held Monday afternoon at the First Lutheran church in Rice 
Lake, with Rev. Gerhardt Busch officiating.  Burial was made in Meadow 
Creek cemetery, south of the city.  Mrs. Robarge died at a Rice Lake 
hospital Saturday.  She had been in poor health for the past two years. 
Born Minnie Albertine Raawe in Pomerania, Germany, on March 31, 1888, she 
came to this country when just a few months old, setlling with her parents 
in the town of Stanley.  She was married to Lawrence Robarge of Dobie at 
Cameron in 1907.  Mr. Robarge died in 1945.  Five children survive her.  
There are three sons, Walter, Harold and Ernest Robarge, all of Cameron, 
and two daughters, Mrs. Henry (Carol) Egan of Ridgeland and Mrs. Ben (Agnes) 
Weed of Rt. 2, Rice Lake.  Also surviving are three brothers, Herman and 
Arnold of Rt. 1, Cameron adn Alvin of Colfax; three sisters, Mrs. John 
Kadlec of Hayward, Mrs. Albert Stilley of Chetek and Miss Agnes Raawe of 
Rt. 1, Cameron; 16 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.  A fourth 
sister, Martha, was killed in the tornado of 1929.  Mrs. Robarge sold the 
family farm on Rt. 4, Rice Lake, in April 1954, and later moved to Cameron 
where she had made her home since."