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Mary Kortas Kuffel 

1886-1945

 

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Mrs. Mary Kuffel, 59, nee Mary Kortas, died last evening at the Holy Family hospital where she had been confined since suffering a stroke recently. Her home is at 1033 S. Tenth street. The body will lie in state at the Pfeffer funeral home from this evening until the hour of services on Thursday. At 9:45 a.m. on that day there will be brief rites at the funeral home and a requiem mass at 10 o’clock at St. Boniface Catholic church. Burial will be in St. Casimir’s cemetery at Nordheim. Mrs. Kuffel was a lifelong resident of the county. She was born at Newton Feb. 5, 1886, and had lived much of her life in this city. She is survived by three sons, Albin and Earl both of this city and Pfc. Lars of Will Rogers field, Okla., and one daughter, Willette of this city; seven brothers, John, Anton, Erwin, Louis and Edward Kortas of Manitowoc; William of Milwaukee (sic—only 6 of 7 mentioned); three sisters, Mrs. William Goethke of this city; Mrs. John Sadler of Holland, Mich.; and Mrs. Theresa Craney of Milwaukee; and four grandchildren. Mrs. Kuffel was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary. The rosary will be recited at 7 o’clock Wednesday evening at the funeral home. Manitowoc Herald Times, June 19, 1945 P. 2

 

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