Mrs. M. Witt Rites at Bonesteel Funeral services for Mrs. Wilhelmina "Minnie" Witt, 85, will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Zion Lutheran Church with the Rev. David Meyer officiating.

Friends may call Saturday night at the Clausen Funeral Home in Burke. Burial will be in Rosebud Cemetery, Bonesteel, South Dakota.

She was born August 22, 1887, in Nebraska to Mr. and Mrs. August and Wilhelmina (Wedig) Dummer and died November 2, 1972, at a nursing home in Butte, Nebraska. On January 20, 1906, she married Gustav Witt at Fairfax. He died in 1934.

Survivors include six sons, Herman, Castro Valley, California; Walter, Elkhorn, Nebraska; Lawrence, Burke; Raymond, Bonesteel; Willis, Bennington, Nebraska; and Glen, Berlin, North Dakota.

Two daughters, Mrs. Clarence (Gladys) Pruess, Millard, Nebraska, and Mrs. Leonard (Leola) Hoar, Bonesteel, 34 grandchildren; 38 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Daily Republic, Mitchell South Dakota, November 4, 1972