This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DROSTE/SMITH/BEALS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3EC.2ACE/589 Message Board Post: Nellie E. Droste > PORTAGE-Nellie E. Droste, a resident of Wyocena Health Care >Center for the last seven years died Saturday, Oct. 24, 1998, >at the age of 90. > Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, October 27, 1998 >at 11;00 am at the Pflanz Mantey Mendrala Funeral Home in Portage with the >Rev.Thomas J. Wagner officiating. Interment to follow in the Oxford >Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 10;00 a.m. until the time of service >on Tuesday at the funeral home. > Nellie was born on July 10, 1908 in Marquette County, Wisconsin, >the daughter of Charles and Rachel (Beals) Smith. She married Ervin >on November 14, 1929 in Wisconsin Dells. She graduated from Oxford High >School. Nellie worked in the Post Office in Oxford and also for Dairyland >Poultry of Endeavor. She also farmed rural Oxford until she retired and >moved to rural Portage. > Survivors include two sons, Donald (Deloris) of Portage and Robert >of Pardeville, five grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. She was >proceeded in death by her parents, two sisters, and one brother. If anyone has information on Nellie (my grandmother) please email me at supert@maqs.net Thank you Tammy (DROSTE) Kohnke