Lydia Langholff

 

 

   The death of Mrs Arthur R Langholff, 86, of 233 E Milwaukee Ave, Fort Atkinson occured at the local Memorial hospital at 3:05 a.m. today, after an illness.

   She was born in the town of Koshkonong as Lydia Frisch, the daughter of Johan and Augusta Venzke Frisch, Nov 20 1881. Her marriage to Arthur Langholff took place Sept 7 1905, in the town of Koshkonong. The couple had lived in Fort Atkinson since that time. She was a member of the First Congregational Church.

   Surviving are her husband; two sisters, Mrs Mary Mengel and Mrs Martha Becker, foth of Fort Atkinson, and three brothers, Otto Frisch, Rapid City S Dakota, and Walter and Orvin, Fort Atkinson. A brother, Edwin, and two sisters, Edith Speeth and Selma Hausen, preceded her in death.

   Funeral services will be held at the Royal F Hayes funeral home, Fort Atkinson, at 2 p.m. Sunday, with the Rev G Warren Turner, pastor of the First Congregational Church, officiating.

   Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, in Fort Atkinson. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday.

   She was graduated from the Fort Atkinson high school with the class of 1898 and was a seamstress and dressmaker for many years. During the years that her husband owned and operated the Bon Ton bakery and resaurant in Fort Atkinson, Mrs Langholff was employed as a clerk.

   Later while Langholff was in the service during World War I, she worked in the Army camp canteed and hostess house, located at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois. She was also a charter member of the Fort Atkinson American Legion Post auxilairy

 

From the Jefferson Co Union Newspaper Page 4 July 5 1968