Any further information sought on the family of Edmund Laessig and Elizabeth "Lizzy" Burkart. Edmund is son of Edward M. Laessig and Amelia FRICK whose obituaries appear below. Edmund is listed as living at Milwaukee and West Allis in these obituaries. OBITUARY MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD Tuesday, March 19, 1929 PROMINENT RESIDENT OF STRATFORD DIES -- Illness of Brief Standing Fatal to Edward M. Laessig -- Monday Morning Stratford, March 19 -- Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at St. Joseph's Catholic church for Edward M. Laessig, 71, prominent resident of this community, who died Monday morning at 8 o'clock at his home, following an illness of less than a week. Burieal will be made in the parish cemetery, with Father John Schumacher officiating at both rites. Mr. Laessig was born March 10, 1858, at Green Bay, and came later to Marathon county. He was married April 6, 1884, to Miss Amelia Frick at Wausau, and about 30 years ago settled on a farm near Stratford. Upon the death of their daughter-in-law several years later, Mr. and Mrs. Laessig returned to the farm to look after their motherless grandchildren. On Wednesday of last week he was taken sick, and the members of the family were called to his bedside when it became known that there was slight hope for his recovery. Besides the bereaved widow, those left to mourn his death include four sons, William and Henry of Stratford, Edmund of Milwaukee, and Dr. Hubert L. Laessig of Marshfield; one daughter, Mrs. Joseph Bauer, also of Marshfield, and 12 Grandchildren. -------------- OBITUARY MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD LAESSIG SERVICES SCHEDULED SUNDAY Moth of Marshfield Dentist Dies Friday Noon at Stratford Stratford -- Mrs. Emilie [Amelia] Laessig, 81, died at 12:30 p.m. Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Bauer. The body will be in state at the Sauter Funeral Home until 11 a.m. Sunday, when it will be taken to Zion Lutheran Church, where funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 o�clock by the Rev. T.E. Diemer. Burial will be made in Webertown cemetery. Mrs. Laessig, nee Frick, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Frick, was born in Germany Nov. 30, 1865, and came to America in 1880, settling in Athens. On April 6, 1884, she was married at Wausau to Edward Laessig, who died March 16, 1929. She lived at Merrill from the time of her marriage to 1899, when they came to Stratford to farm. Surviving are five children, Mrs. Joseph Bauer, Stratford, Henry and William Laessig, both of the town of Eau Pleine; Edmund Laessig, West Allis; and Dr. H. L. Laessig, Marshfield dentist. Also surviving are 16 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, a brother Frank Frick, Athens, and a sister Mrs. Bertha Miller, Oregon, Wis.. Patti Laessig at [email protected]