This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mearek Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2EC.2ACE/2622 Message Board Post: >From the Wausau Daily Record Herald - Monday, 10/25/1954. Funeral services for Miss Gertrude Mearek, Des Plaines, Ill., a former resident of the city who died Saturday morning in Des Plaines, will be tomorrow afternoon at 3:15 o'clock in the Helke Funeral Home, with the Rev. E. H. Bertermann, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, officiating. Interment will be in the Town of Stettin Cemetery. The daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mearek, the deceased was born here Dec. 18, 1894. She left the city five years ago to reside in Des Plaines.