Adeline W. (Wilde) Hanke

Adeline W. Hanke went to heaven Friday, December 7, 2018 at Wellington Place in Rib Mountain. Adeline was born October 17, 1921 in Rib Falls, the daughter of the late Walter Wilde and Amanda (Steidinger) Wilde. On Aug. 28, 1945 she married the late Harold Hanke at St. John’s Lutheran Church in the Town of Rib Falls.

Adeline was a homemaker and helped operate the family farm in the Town of Cassel with her husband until 1971 when she and her husband moved to Marathon. She then worked for the Marathon Cheese Cooperation until retirement. Adeline enjoyed fishing with her husband at their cottage near Tomahawk often out fishing him. (She still owns the family record for the largest walleye). In addition, she loved to host family gatherings, garden and was a great cook. Her Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve meals were legendary in quality, quantity and variety. She toured Europe with her husband and the Jerry Goetsch Orchestra many times. She was an accomplished seamstress sewing Amish style quilts for her children and grandchildren and crocheting angel and bell Christmas tree ornaments for them and others. She was a long-time member of St Matthews Lutheran Church, Marathon, and waited on tables at Rib River Ballroom for many years on behalf of the church.

Survivors include two sons, Allen (Margie) Hanke, Rib Falls. Roger (Sharon) Hanke, Wausau, five grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, two sisters, Alladine Thurs and Jeanetta Mathwich, and one brother Duaine Wilde. Besides her husband and parents, she was proceeded in death by a daughter, Faye (Robert) Biesel, two sisters, Edna Bargander and Dorethe Wilde, and one brother Harvey Wilde.

Funeral Service will be at 2:30 PM at St. Mathews Lutheran Church in Marathon, Wisconsin, on Saturday, December 15, 2018 with Pastor Jon W. Halder officiating. Burial will follow at the parish cemetery. Visitation will be from 12:30 PM until the time of the services at the church.  Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Home, Marathon is in charge of arrangements.  Online condolences may be expressed at www.petersonkraemer.com

The family would like to thank the staff of Wellington for four years of kind and compassionate care, the ladies of St. Matthews for visiting her at Wellington, and especially thank her physician, Dr. Vicki Baker, for all she did to make Adeline more comfortable.

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