This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DROSTE/BRUCKNER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3EC.2ACE/588 Message Board Post: >Ervin R. Droste > PORTAGE- Ervin R. Droste age 77, of Portage, died on Tuesday >November 17, 1987 at Divine Savior Nursing Home in Portage. > Funeral services will be held on Friday, Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the >Pflanz Funeral Home in Portage, with the Rev. Thomas J. Wagner >officiating. Interment will follow in the Oxford Cemetery, Oxford. >Friends may call from 1 p.m. until time of services on Friday. >There will be no other visitations. > M.r. Droste was born in Leola Township, Adams County, Wisconsin >on may 8, 1910, the son of Frank and Mary (Bruckner) Droste. He >was a farmer, and had also worked for Miegs Asphalt in Portage for six years. > He is survived by his wife, Nellie, of Portage; two sons, Donald > (Deloris) >Droste and Robert (Toni) Droste, both of Portage; one brother Herbert >Droste, Wisconsin Dells; three sisters, Lena York of Wild Rose, Dorothy >Reichard of Baraboo, and Helen Mason of Lyons, Kansas; six grandchildren, >and other relatives and many close friends. > He was preceded in death by his parents. > > >