Part 3 - The Klein Connection

Weekly Valley Herald, June 8, 1967
Retired Town Board Official . . . William Klein, 80 Laid to Final Rest
Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. last Friday, May 26, at St. Hubert Catholic Church in Chanhassen. Mr.
Klein died Wednesday of last week, May 24, at Friendship Manor Nursing Home in Shakopee.
His nephew, the Reverend Raymond Marschall of St. Michael's on the Hill in St. Paul, officiated. Phillip
Funeral Home of Shakopee was in charge of arrangements. Interment was in St. Hubert cemetery at
Chanhassen.
Pallbearers were grandsons, Leo Fourre of St. Paul, Michael and Robert Klein of Eden Prairie, Douglas
Klein of Chanhassen and Larry and Thomas Conroy of Savage.
The deceased, a retired farmer of the Chanhassen area and member of the Chanhassen Town Board for more
than 20 years, was born June 12, 1886, at Chanhassen.
On May 27, 1913, he married Mary Thul at Excelsior, and she survives. He attended St. Hubert parochial
school in Chanhassen and farmed in the Chanhassen area until his retirement due to ill health.
Also surviving are four daughters, Mr. Ed (Bernadette) Hartman of Excelsior, Mrs. Martin (Florence)
Conroy of Savage, Mrs. Wyman (Laura) Fourre of St. Paul and Mrs. Clarence (Mary) Schleicher of St. Paul;
three sons, Willis and Francis of Chanhassen and Joseph of Eden Prairie; three sisters, Mrs. William
Marschall, Mrs. Mary Kerber and Catherine Klein, all of Shakopee; three brothers, Ray Klein of Shakopee,
Henry Klein of Mound and Carl Klein, of Spicer Minnesota, and 25 grandchildren.
Shakopee Valley News, August 8, 1979
Mary Klein
Mary Klein, of Friendship Manor, formerly of Chanhassen died August 1 at Friendship Manor. She was 92.
Mary Thul was born August 11, 1886 in Marystown, to Mathias and Catherine (Mergens) Thul. She was
married to William F. Klein at Excelsior, May 27, 1913. Her parents preceded her in death.
Mrs. Klein is survived by two sons, Joseph, Eden Prairie and Willis, Chanhassen; four daughters, Bernadette
Hartman, Excelsior, Florence Conroy, Prior Lake, Laura Fourre, St. Paul and Mary Schleicher, Circle Pines, a
daughter-in-law, Cornelia Klein, Chanhassen; 27 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. A son, Francis,
Chanhassen, preceded her in death. She is also survived by two sisters, Cecelia Miller, Hopkins and
Hildegarde Joswick, Deephaven.
Services were held August 4, at St. Hubert’s Catholic Church, Chanhassen, with the Rev. Armand Lubansky
presiding. Pallbearers were Douglas, Mark and Michael Klein, Leo Fourre, Kevin Schleicher and Tom
Conroy. She was buried in St. Hubert’s Cemetery. Philipp Funeral Home, Shakopee, was in charge of
arrangements.
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