From the Manitowoc Herald-Times, Thursday, June 14, 1962:
Funeral services for Mrs. Flora Winkelmiller, 76, widow of a member of
a pioneer Two Rivers knitting family, who died unexpectedly of a heart
attack at the home of a son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Carlton
F. Brehmer, at 1024 N. Seventh St., Sheboygan, shortly after noon
Wednesday, were at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the family plot in Pioneers’
Rest Cemetery, Two Rivers, the Rev. Richard H. Trump officiating.
Mrs. Wilkelmiller, nee Flora Grover, was born Oct. 22, 1885, at Two
Rivers, daughter of the late Henry and Susanna Sechrist Grover. She
attended Two Rivers public grade schools and was graduated from Two
Rivers High School with the class of 1903. After completing her
teaching education at the Manitowoc County Normal School she taught at
Branch for a year before her marriage 55 years ago to Oscar
Winkelmiller, who with his father, the late Richard Winkelmiller,
operated the old Two Rivers Knitting Co. at the site of the Carron Net
Co., Two Rivers. Her husband died in 1936 after which she enrolled at
the former Milwaukee Normal School. She moved to Sheboygan in 1940 and
had been residing with the daughter for the past three years.
Besides the daughter she leaves a granddaughter, Miss Bess Brehmer, a
student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
