This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Steffenhagen, Gutknecht, Voigt, Teske, Utecht Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2EC.2ACE/2540 Message Board Post: >From the Wausau Daily Record Herald - Monday, 11/17/1958 Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Taylor Funeral Home in Merrill for Herman Steffenhagen, 83, Merrill, who died Saturday morning at 9:45 o'clock in the Lincoln County Hospital there after 2 1/2 years' illness. The Rev. Gerald Kohn, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Merrill, will officiate and burial will be in the Merrill Cemetery. The body will be at the funeral home tomorrow morning. Mr. Steffenhagen was born in Germany Feb. 19, 1875, the son of the late Albert and Johanna Gutknecht Steffenhagen. He came to the Town of Berlin in 1879 and lived there until 1908, when he located in Merrill, where he was a carpenter for many years. He was married in 1899 to Mathilda Voigt, who died in 1909. In 1910 he was married in Merrill to Ida Teske, who died Sept. 12, 1952. Surviving are a stepson, Earl Steffenhagen, and a stepsister, Mrs. Carl Steffenhagen, the latter of the Town of Berlin. Another stepsister, Mrs. Albert Utecht, Wausau, died several years ago.