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Noffz
Funeral Home
400
S. Third
Max
L Noffz
1907-1983
Max L. Noffz, 76, 400 South Third Street,
a former Watertown businessman and funeral director, died Tuesday afternoon at
Watertown Memorial Hospital following a brief illness.
Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Friday at
St. Mark's Lutheran Church with Rev. Myron Kell officiating. Burial takes place in Lutheran Cemetery.
Friends and relatives may call to pay
their respects at the Hafemeister Funeral Home from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday and at
the church from 9 a.m. until the time of the service Friday.
Noffz was born Jan. 24,1907 in Watertown, son of Frank and Emelie Noffz. On Nov. 1, 1930 he married the former Ella Kottmann at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Watertown. He was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church and a funeral director in Watertown for over 50 years. He was a Watertown High School graduate and a graduate of the Goodman College of Embalming in Milwaukee.
Kohls and Knaack
Funeral Home
Hafemeister Funeral
Home
Noffz Funeral Home
He was employed at the Kohls and Knaack
Funeral Home in Watertown, which was later the Hafemeister
Funeral Home. He owned and
operated the Noffz Funeral Home from 1947 to 1972.
He was a member of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association, the National Funeral Directors Association, a former member of the Watertown Police Reserve and a 55-year member of the Plattdeutscher Verein. He also served as secretary, treasurer and house chairman for the Verein and was awarded a life membership in the organization.
Survivors include his wife, two
daughters, Mrs. Harold (Barbara) Oswald of Appleton, Mrs. Robert (Beverly)
Webster of Watertown, five grandchildren, five great-grandsons, nieces, nephews
and other relatives.. He was the last
member of his immediate family.
He was preceded in death by one granddaughter, one sister and one brother.
Kohls & Knaak 1913, 607-609 E Main, furniture dealers
Kohls & Knaak 1915, Ad, furniture and funeral, 607-609 E Main
Kohls-Hafemeister Co 1935, 607-613 E Main, furniture and
undertakers
