
Catherine Jahnke Catherine Jahnke, 87, of Oconto passed away Monday evening, Dec. 17.
The former Catherine Theresa Stapleton was born on March 21, 1925 to the late Francis and Theresa Stapleton in Cudahy, the eldest of 10 children.
As it was the Depression, she left home before graduating from high school and worked in Milwaukee to support the family. During that time she once got to see Frank Sinatra live in concert. During World War II she worked as a Rosie the Riveter in a factory.
She later married Lloyd Jahnke of Abrams and they farmed with their six children for over 30 years, first near Brookside, then Lena. Ma was very family oriented, a kind person who smiled easily, friendly with all she met and loved children. She valued education such that, in her 50s she studied and received her GED. She was a member of the Lena Methodist Church, the Machickanee Legion Post Auxiliary and was active in the Louisville and Pershing 4-H clubs.
Survivors include three sons, Dennis (Leda) Jahnke of Lena, Richard (Ilana) Jahnke of Gays Mills and Bruce (Kathy) Jahnke of Owen; two daughters, Nancy Jo Jahnke of Corvallis, Ore. and Karen (Remy) Barila of Lodi, Calif.; a son-in-law, Scott Yaeger of Ore.; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. She is further survived by five sisters, Elvira (Oscar) Kopshinsky of Waukesha, Margareth Smith of Horicon Marsh, Joanne Webb of Brush, Colo., Geraldine Drews of Mukwonago and Charlotte Spengler of Stoughton; a brother, Walter of Muskegan, Ill.; a brother-in-law, Virgil Roberts of Colo.; four sisters-in-law, Ellen (Jahnke) Andersen of Green Bay, Marie Stapleton of Mukwonago, Chris Stapleton of Illinois and Edith of Idaho and 32 nieces and nephews.
Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 46 years, Lloyd; a daughter, Susan Yaeger; two sisters, Lucille Jensen of Pewaukee and Beverly of Waukesha; a brother, Roger of Pewaukee; a niece, Carol Phelps; three nephews, Gary Ward, Wayne Stapleton and Tommie Spengler; brothers-in-law, (Jahnke side) Arthur, Bernard, Robert, William and Lefty Curtis, Hap Emmett, Carl Ward, Don Andersen and Victor Kollath, (Stapleton side) Dewey Jensen, Ray Smith, Floyd Webb, Bob Drews, and Tom Spengler; sisters-in-law, (Jahnke side) Olive, Beatrice, Ruth, Mertyl, Doris and Elaine Jahnke.
Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 26 at Rhodes-Charapata Funeral Home, Oconto. Visitation will continue at the Oconto Gospel Chapel, Oconto from 10 a.m. until the celebration of life at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 27. Her son, Rev. Bruce Jahnke will officiate and burial will follow at Brookside Cemetery.

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