Eloise Helen Smits
1915 - 1994 (79 years)-
Name Eloise Helen Smits Born 21 Jun 1915 DePere, Brown Co, Wisconsin 
Gender Female Died 24 Jun 1994 Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin Buried Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, De Pere, Wisconsin Person ID I179223 Little Chute Genealogy Last Modified 19 May 2013
Father Martin Jacob Smits, b. 26 Apr 1879, Town of Rockland, Brown Co, Wisconsin , d. 05 Jun 1972, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin (Age 93 years) Mother Louise H VanDyck, b. 12 Oct 1880, Grubbenvorst, Limburg, Netherlands , d. 02 Jan 1972, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin (Age 91 years) Married 06 May 1904 Family ID F72124 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Howard Zirbel, b. 17 Nov 1915, d. 27 Jun 1994, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin (Age 78 years) Married 18 Aug 1941 DePere, Brown Co, Wisconsin Children 1. Barbara Zirbel 2. Lynne Zirbel, b. 29 Oct 1944, DePere, Brown Co, Wisconsin , d. 10 Apr 2008, Townsend, Oconto Co, Wisconsin (Age 63 years)3. Dennis Zirbel 4. Debra Zirbel Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 Family ID F78851 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - "Eloise Zirbel, 78, 914 Third St., De Pere died Friday June 24, 1994 at a local hospital. She was born June 21, 1916 in De Pere to her late parents Martin and Louise (Van Dyck) Smits. Eloise graduated from East De Pere High School in 1934. She married her husband Howard Smits (sic-Zirbel), August 18, 1941. She worked for Kraft for many years and for Larson Canning Co. for 10 years, retiring in 1978. She was a member of St. Joseph's Church on St. Norbert College campus. Eloise enjoyed spending time with her family at their cottage on Rolling Stone Lake.
Survivors include her husband Howard; her children, Barbara and Richard Hooyman, De Pere; Lynne Doherty, Green Bay; Dennis and Nancy Zirbel, Ashwaubenon; Debbie and Gordy Hutjens, 13 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, her brothers and sisters, Florence Van Ermen, DePere; Ossie and Olive Smits, Manistique, Mich.; Stella De Groot, De Pere; Margaret and Fabian Reince, Green Bay; Bud Smits, De Pere; and brother-in-law, Ray Schumerth, De Pere.
She was preceded in death by her parents and three sisters, Joan Evearts, Angie Schumerth, and Marian Smits.
Friends may call at the Ryan Funeral Home, 305 N. Tenth St., De Pere, from 4 to 8 p.m. today. Funeral 10 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph Church on St. Norbert College campus with the Rev. Gery Meehan officiaing. Burial in the Mount Olivet Cemetery.
The family wishes to extend a thank you to the doctors and staff at St. Vincent Hospital and to Sr. Jonet and her staff at the I.C.U."
- "Eloise Zirbel, 78, 914 Third St., De Pere died Friday June 24, 1994 at a local hospital. She was born June 21, 1916 in De Pere to her late parents Martin and Louise (Van Dyck) Smits. Eloise graduated from East De Pere High School in 1934. She married her husband Howard Smits (sic-Zirbel), August 18, 1941. She worked for Kraft for many years and for Larson Canning Co. for 10 years, retiring in 1978. She was a member of St. Joseph's Church on St. Norbert College campus. Eloise enjoyed spending time with her family at their cottage on Rolling Stone Lake.