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Margaret W. Matzke, 90, Wheaton, died Monday, February 24, 1997, at the Westmoreland Hospital where she had been a patient a few days.
She was born September 2, 1906, northeast of Wheaton, the daughter of Albert and Anna Berges Kufahl. She attended Bunker Hill School east of Wheaton and spent her life in the Wheaton community. She was a sales clerk and bookkeeper at Kufahl Hardware in Wheaton from 1947 to 1986.
She was a member of St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Wheaton where she was a Sunday school teacher 25 years.
Her husband, William C. Matzke, died November 18, 1946.
Survivors include two sons, Melvin Matzke, Blaine, and Marcellus Matzke, Wheaton; nine grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
Services are at 10:30 a.m. today, Thursday, February 27, at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Wheaton. Burial will be in St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery in Duluth. Contributions may be made to the Margaret Matzke Memorial Fund, yet to be designated, and sent in care of Kufahl Funeral Home, Wheaton.
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