Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Fred SCHMIDT ************************************************************************ Submitted by Theresa Williams, June 2006 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Oshkosh Daily Northwestern July 20, 1945 Fred Schmidt, age 89 a former Portage county resident, died on July, 17 at Oshkosh. Mr Schmidt was born in Germany on Sept. 22 1856. Prior to moving to Oshkosh 26 years ago, he resided on a farm near Hi Corners, which is in the Amherst vicinity, on a farm near Fancher and in Amherst village for several years. His wife Caroline Meyer Schmidt died in 1920. Surviving are six children, Fred, Albert and Mrs William {Emma} Gollnick of Oshkosh, Mrs Selma Boelter of Amherst and Dan of Fond du Lac, 26 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at Oshkosh, Saturday and burial followed in St. John's Lutheran cemetery in Lanark beside his wife. The pallbearers were Art Smith, Leonard Damerow, Erving Wesenberg, and Albert Gollnick of Oshkosh, Donald Smith of Great Lakes Ill., and Lester Boelter of Amherst, grandsons of Mr Schmidt. Mrs Myron Bobbe of Amherst was in change of the flowers. Following the burial 70 relatives and friends were served a lunch at the Mrs Selma Boelter home at Amherst, assisted by neighbors and friends. Relatives came from Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Manawa, Wausau, Fremont, West Bloomfield, Almond and Amherst.