History
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The Wachholz family name has over 100 years of tradition in the funeral business. It was in the late 1800's that Rudolph Wachholz started the funeral business in Westfield. Rudolph graduated from the Johnson School of Embalming in Milwaukee in 1915. At that time, a license was not required to be an “undertaker". He later operated a funeral home and furniture store in Neshkoro. In 1922, Rudolph purchased the furniture and funeral business of A.A. “Shorty” Sommerfeldt in Princeton. It was not unusual, at that time, for a funeral home and furniture store to be at the same location. Rudolph’s son, Herbert G. Wachholz Sr., joined his father when he graduated from the Goodman Mortuary School in Milwaukee in 1927. At that time, Herbert was the youngest licensed embalmer in the state of Wisconsin.