Louise May Klinkman

1915 - 2000  (84 years)

• Name	Louise May Klinkman  [1, 2]
  Birth	11 Aug 1915	Decker, Sanilac County, Michigan   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	16 May 2000	Saginaw County, Michigan   [2]
  Burial	Marlette Cemetery, Marlette, Sanilac County, Michigan   [3]
  Notes	Cass City Chronicle May 24, 2000 Obituaries, Page 14 Louise Agar Louise M. Agar, 84, died Tuesday May 16, 2000, at Covenant Care (St. Luke's) in Saginaw. She was born in the Decker area August 11, 1915, the daughter of Orton Klinkman and Catherine (Schwegler) Klinkman. January 1, 1942, she married Roy Agar. He died November 16, 1996. She was a homemaker and worked on the family dairy farm. She attended Pine School, worked in several homes caring for others and was employed by Dr. Webster for several years before marriage. She was a charter member of the Marlette Hospital Auxiliary, of which she had been a member for 49 years. She did volunteer work as a Gray Lady and worked in the gift shop. She was a past 4-H leader, active member of the Germania Lutheran Ladies Aid, past Friendship Club and farm Bureau member. She is survived by a daughter, Marilyn (Leon) TRAINOR of Snover; a son Keith AGAR of Marlette; three grandsons; two sisters, Margaret (Vyron) BEULTER of Kingston and Laura DALE of Marlette, a brother, Wilfred (Arlene) KLINKMAN of Smiths Creek, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband Roy, her parents, and a brother, Charles KLINKMAN. Funeral services were held Friday May 19 at the Marsh Funeral Chapel in Marlette with the Rev. Kenneth Parker officiating. Burial was in the Marlette Cemetery.
  Person ID	I5075	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Orton Thomas Klinkman,   b. 10 Feb 1887, Lancaster, Erie County, New York d. 12 Sep 1961, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Catherine "Kate" Schwegler,   b. 8 Jun 1893, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan d. 21 Apr 1962, Marlette, Sanilac County, Michigan (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	11 Mar 1914	Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1]
  Photos		Klinkman, Orton and his wife, Catherine (Schwegler) Ort and Kate celebration their 40th wedding anniversary in 1954. The couple was married in Caro, March 11, 1914, and lived in Cass City for three years, after which they moved to their farm residence near Decker, Michigan.
  Headstones		Klinkman, Orton T and Catherine (Schwegler)
  Family ID	F2696	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Roy B. Agar,   b. 20 Jun 1912, Ionia County, Michigan d. 16 Nov 1996, Saginaw County, Michigan (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	1 Jan 1942	Marlette, Sanilac County, Michigan   [1, 4, 5]
  	Volume 27 of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST, dated September 4, 1967, reported that Mr. and Mrs. Roy Agar (Louise Klinkman) celebrated their silver wedding anniversary January 1, 1967, with an open house in their home.
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F1540	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2008

  
  

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  Birth - 11 Aug 1915 - Decker, Sanilac County, Michigan Marriage - 1 Jan 1942 - Marlette, Sanilac County, Michigan Death - 16 May 2000 - Saginaw County, Michigan  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Sources

  [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982. [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, May 24, 2000 (Reliability: 3). [S1026] Agar, Wm. John, Decker, Michigan, Compiler "Descendants of Adam Benkelman 13 Feb 1824-30 Dec 1897" Ver. Dated 23 July 2007. [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, Wednesday, November 20, 1996 (Reliability: 3). [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Vol. 27, September 4, 1967 (Reliability: 3).