Monroe Co., Wisconsin OBIT:  G.A. Walz 

SUBJECT: G.A. Walz obit
SUBMITTER: Bev Nohr
EMAIL: rjnohr@aol.com
DATE: Apr 05, 1999
SURNAMES: WALZ, DOWNS, HALDEMAN, SINNER

FUNERAL SERVICE FOR G.A. WALZ, 73, HELD IN NORWALK

Funeral services for Gustave Adolph Walz, 73, who died Sunday evening at
the Sparta hospital were held Wednesday afternoon at the Norwalk Evangelical
church, wth the Rev. C.E Olsen officiation. Mr. Walz had been ill several
months.
Mr. Walz was the son of John and Marie Walz. He was born on the home farm
near Norwalk April 18, 1871. He attended Norwalk village school and spent
his boyhood on the farm. He later was employed by the Northwestern Railroad
as a construction worker. He was married in 1926 to Emma Downs in Chicago.
They made their home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Mrs. Walz died in 1941 and because of failing health Gustave Walz returned
to the Norwalk farm in August 1943, to be near his brothers and sisters.
Mr. Walz is survived by two sisters, mrs. Alvina Haldeman and Mrs. Sophia
Sinner of Norwalk; two brothers, George A. Walz and Sam E. Walz of Norwalk
and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Ethel Burnhardt of Atlantic City, NY.
Pallbearers were William Vieth, Charles Vieth, Christ Pfuhl, Arno Zimmerman,
Herman Oldenberg and Ernest Brandau. Mr Walz had been a member of the Evangelical
church for many years.
George Walz and Sam Walz accompanied the body to Hebron, Ind. for burial
near Mrs. Walz, whose family home was there.



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