This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Borchardt, Krueger, Hahn, Wilde, Haffman Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2EC.2ACE/2482 Message Board Post: >From the Wausau Daily Record Herald - Monday, 3/4/1968. John C. Borchardt, 84, Hamburg Route 1, died at 4:40 a.m. today in a local hospital after a long illness. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, Town of Hamburg. The Rev. Arnold F. Beawer will officiate, and burial will be in the parish cemetery. Friends may call at Lohr-Kraemer Funeral Home, Marathon, after 2 p.m. Tuesday. Mr. Borchardt was born Sept. 12, 1883, in the Town of Berlin, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Borchardt. On Aug. 31, 1907, in the Town of Berlin, he married Helena Krueger, who survives. Mr. Borchardt was a lifetime area resident. He had been employed at Fromm Brothers for many years until his retirement in 1952. Survivors, besides his wife, include four sons, Lester, Hamburg Route 1, George, 107 Park Blvd., Wilbert, 1353 S. Ninth Ave., and Edward, Aurora, Minn.; two daughters, Mrs. Adolph Hahn, Hamburg Route 1, and Mrs. Leonard Wilde, Edgar Route 2; a sister, Mrs. Elsie Haffman, Oshkosh; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.