Margaret ?Maggie? Blatter was born July 21, 1884 in Buffalo Co., Wisconsin. Her delayed birth certificate was found in the Buffalo Co. Courthouse (Birth Records, Volume 28, Page 237). Also, her baptismal certificate indicates she was born on July 21, 1884 but her obituary states her birth occurred on July 24, 1885 in Wabasha, Minnesota. She was baptized as Theresa Margaret Ebersold on March 9, 1885 at the church of St. Felix, Wabasha, Wabasha Co., Minnesota.

Maggie married Gottfried Blatter (b: Abt. 1880, d: Abt. 1970) on December 16, 1905 in Buffalo Co., Wisconsin. They had six children; Richard R. Blatter (b: 25 Apr 1906), Pearl Blatter (b: 28 Apr 1908), Madaline Blatter (b: 21 Jul 1911), Madora Blatter (b: 26 Aug 1914), Rex Blatter (b: 1917) and Grace Blatter (b: 22 Jan 1919). All reached adulthood and married except Rex who died very young. Margaret and Gottfried Blatter celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 8, 1956.

Maggie died June 15, 1959 in her home in Wabasha, Minnesota. Her and husband Gottfried are buried in the Tell cemetery, Alma, Wisconsin along with the infant child Rex.

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OBITUARY
Wabasha, Minnesota Newspaper
Thursday, June 18, 1959
Mrs. Gottfried Blatter

Funeral services were read by the Rev. A. J. Ward Wednesday afternoon at the E. B. V??? Funeral Home for Mrs. Gottfried (Maggie) Blatter, 73, who passed away early Monday morning June 15 at her home following a heart attack.

The former Maggie Ebersold, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ebersold, was born in Wabasha July 24, 1885. In December 1905, she married to Gottfried Blatter and lived during the early years of her marriage in the Alma, Wis. Area, moving back to Wabasha in 1921, where they have since made their home.

She is survived by her husband, a son Richard Blatter of Wabasha; four daughters, Miss Pearl Blatter of La Crosse, Mrs. Milton Hall (Madeline) of Sheboygan, Wis., Mrs. Clem Noll (Madora) of Wabasha and Mrs Harold Counter (Grace) of Wabasha. One son. Rex, preceded his mother in death. She is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Nora Loechler of Wabasha, six grandchildren and one great-grandson.

Burial was in Tell Cemetery in Tell, Wisconsin. Pallbearers were Charles, Kenneth and Herbert Loechler, John Ebersold, Robert Sullivan and David Heaser.

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OBITUARY
Wabasha, Minnesota Newspaper
(date unknown ? assume about 1950)
Gottfried Blatter

Gottfried Blatter, 78, Wabasha died at his home Monday evening after an illness of four months.

A resident of Wabasha for 39 years, Mr. Blatter came to the United States from Switzerland when he was 17. He worked as a cheese make and as a flour miller.

Survivors are: A son Richard, Wabasha; four daughters, Mrs. August (Pearl) Mau, La Crosse, Wisconsin; Mrs. Milton (Madeline) Hall, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Mrs. Clem (Medora) Noll and Mrs. Harold (Grace) Counter, Wabasha; two brothers, Cris, Camloops, B.C., and Fritz, Switzerland, and six grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at two o?clock this Thursday afternoon at the Abbott-Wise Funeral Home, the Rev. Alfred J. Ward of United Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in the Tell Cemetery, Tell, Wisconsin. Pallbearers will be Mathew Kohn, H.E. Carr, Fred Plein, Leo Lager, George Wiemann and Don Markey.