OBITUARIES:  John Peter SCHIEFFER, Rice Lake, Barron County, WI

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John Peter Schieffer

Obituary of John Peter Schieffer (Rice Lake Chronotype Dec 8 1965)

HL: J. P. Schieffer Dies Tuesday At Age of 84

 "John P. Schieffer, 84, a resident of Rice Lake for more than 60 years, 
and a well known carpenter in the area before his retirement, died Tuesday 
at a local hospital after a lengthy illness.  Funeral services are planned 
Thursday at 10 a.m., from St. Joseph's Catholic church, with Rev. Robert 
Riedmueller officiating, and burial will be made in Our Lady of Lourdes 
cemetery at Dobie.  Rosary services will be held at the Mason funeral 
chapel at 7 p.m. Wednesday for Knights of Columbus and Foresters, and 
at 7:30 for the parish.

 Mr. Shieffer was born Jan. 31, 1881, in Monroe county, Wisconsin, and 
came to Barron county shortly after the turn of the century, after 
attending school at St. John's University at Collegeville, Minn.  He is 
survived by his wife, the former Rose Robarge, and by six sons, Bernard 
and Francis of Milwaukee; Marcellus of Caseville, Ill., Leo and Edmund 
of Waukesha, and Jerome of San Francisco, and four daughters, Sr. M. 
Arnolda, S.S.N.D., of Marshfield, Mrs. Christine Franco of Plant City, 
Fla., Mrs. Julia King of San Francisco, and Mrs. Theresa Hazelberg of 
Milwaukee.

 There are also three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Kelnhofer and Mrs. Henry 
Richter of Rice Lake and Sr. M. Anoldine, O.S.F., of Sparta, and one 
brother, Joseph Schieffer of Rice Lake; 37 grandchildren and three 
great-grandchildren."