| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Sixth Generation114. Elmer Carl GERKE was born on 30 March 1917 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.24,33,64,172,186 He was baptized on 15 April 1917.172 He appeared in the census in 1920 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.24 Elmer appeared in the census in 1930 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.49 He died on 18 January 1977 at the age of 59 in La Crosse, La Crosse County, WI.33,186 He was buried on 22 January 1977 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.38,39,186 in the Oak Grove Cemetery. Elmer Carl GERKE and Esther Ruth ZELLMER were married on 28 December 1940 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.33,38,186,222 at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. (According to the church record of his death, at the time that he died he had 1 son and 1 daughter.) Esther Ruth ZELLMER, daughter of Rudolph August ZELLMER and Alma Sara Auguste WAEGE, was born on 18 September 1915 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.64,92,104 She was baptized on 7 November 1915 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.104 at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. She appeared in the census in 1920 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.24 Esther appeared in the census in 1930 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.49 She died on 5 February 1991 at the age of 75 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.38,39,92 She was buried on 8 February 1991 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.38,39,92 in the Oak Grove Cemetery. Elmer Carl GERKE and Esther Ruth ZELLMER had the following children:
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