Obituaries and Death Notices Jackson County Wisconsin

Obituaries and Death Notices
Jackson County Wisconsin

Mrs. Armbruster
Source: Wisconsin State Journal - 4 Dec. 1885; transcribed by Marla Zwakman

Mrs. Armbruster, of Black River Falls, was found dead, Saturday, two miles from her home, by the roadside. There were no indications of violence, and she is thought to have wandered away in a fit of dementia.

Beach, John
Source: The Evening Herald (Klamath Falls, OR) - Wednesday, December 13, 1911 (Contributed by Jeanie Sawyer)

John Cameron Beach, age 81 years, for twelve years a resident of Klamath Falls, passed away at an early hour this morning at his residence, No. 80 Conger Avenue. Mr. Beach had been very low for some time, so that death was not unexpected. He was a native of Glen Falls, New York, shortly after he became of age removing to Wisconsin, where he wedded Altha Murray, the wife who survives him.

He was clerk of Jackson County, Wisconsin for several terms. On June 6, 1909, he was stricken with paralysis, since which time he has been confined to his home.

The following children, besides the widow, survive him: Miss Clara Beach and Mrs. R. Vance Hutchins of this city; A.H. Beach of St. Paul, Minn.; S. H. a federal employee at Washington D.C. The funeral was held on Friday afternoon from the late residence, the hour being set for 2:30, Rev. J. S. Stubblefield, pastor of Presbyterian church, conducted the services.

Elnora Bowman
Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., Wis.) contributed by Ron Flink & transcribed by Marla Zwakman

ALMA CENTER – Mrs. Edward L. (Elnora) Bowman, 54, of Alma Center , formerly of Loyal, died Monday of a heart attack at her home.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, with burial in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery , both in Alma Center .
Visitation at the Jensen Funeral Home, Hixton, will be from 4-9 p.m. today. Elnora Degenhardt was born in Loyal and was married to Edward L. Bowman there Oct. 11, 1947 . They lived in Alma Center the past several years. Survivors include her husband; four sons, Jerry of Fairchild, Jack of Menomonie, Jay of Alma Center and Jon of West Germany; five daughters, Janet Stephens and June Cummings, both of Alma Center, Jewell Loftus and Jill Meyer, both of Merrillan, and JoAnn DeGroot of Black River Falls; four brothers, Edwin of Greenwood, Ray of Loyal, James of Milwaukee and Ronald of Rockford, Ill.; three sisters, Carol Whipple of Marshfield, Jean Verbrigghe of West Allis and Arlene Rizzi of Spencer, and 20 grandchildren.
***Note: Elnora was born 13 Nov 1928 & died 27 June 1983 per Ron Flink

Ralph B. Bush
Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Friday, 3 Oct. 1989; transcribed by Marla Zwakman

BLACK RIVER FALLS – Services for Ralph R. Bush, 73, Neillsville, who died Wednesday at his home, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Charles Buswell Funeral Home, Black River Falls, with burial in East Lawn Cemetery, Alma Center. Visitation will be one hour before service time at the funeral home.
He was born in Cresco, Iowa, and
(*** Note: The rest of the article was cut off and was not available at the time of transcription.)

Myrtle Enos
Source: Tacoma News Tribune (Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash.) 20 Jan. 1999, obit abstract submitted by Marla Zwakman

born: Black River Falls, Wis.
parents: Harry & Lula Pierce
died: 9 Jan. 1999 in Kingman, AZ
spouse: Charley
children: Mark & Charles, Charice Enos & Elisa Schaaf
sibling: Harry Pierce

David Grether
Buried in Black River Falls
Source: Marathon County Register (Unity, Marathon County, Wis.) Friday, 25 May 1945; transcribed by Marla Zwakman

The Rev. David Grether, aged 55, pastor of the First Evangelical Reformed church in Colby died suddenly early Monday morning at his home in Colby, the result of a heart attack. He had not been seriously ill and on Sunday had conducted his regular church services. The deceased was born in Poland, Ind. July 15, 1889 and received his education at Mission House College at Plymouth, graduating from there in 1915. On Aug. 30 of the following year he was married at Black River Falls to Anna Marie Stucki. After his graduation he served at Neillsville for nine years, then spent 17 years at Magley, Ind. before going to Colby in the fall of 1942 to assume the pastorship of the Evangelical and Reformed church.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1 o’clock at his parish church with the Rev. Elmer Jaberg of Sheboygan, the president of the Wisconsin Northern Synod and the Rev. Edwin Worthman of Kiel officiating. Burial will be made at Black River Falls.

Mary Adelaide Hicks
c. March 22, 1863, Unknown Newspaper - Submitted by Beverly Crim

Died in Hixton, Jackson County, Wisconsin, March 22, 1863, at the residence of her parents, Mary Adelaide Hicks, daughter of John L. and Sophia Hicks, aged 7 years and 5 months. The deceased was a sprightly child, and the closing scenes of her life were remarkable. She manifested a degree of thought and knowledge far beyond her years. She seemed to realized fully the approach of death, but expressed a willingness to die. She said she was not afraid to die. She was willing to go to God, to Jesus the Savior. A short time before her decease she called her parents and her sisters to her, and bade them an affectionate farewell, and requested that her young friends and schoolmates should attend her funeral. In many respects her manifestations of patience, thought and feeling were truly remarkable, especially when we consider her years and the distressing character of her illness.

David Hodges
Wisconsin State Journal - 2 Apr. 1886; transcribed by Marla Zwakman

BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis., April 1. - David Hodges, a laboring man, who resided in the eastern oart of this city, known locally as "Hardscrabble," committed suicide Tuesday by taking morphine and died that night. He was a quiet, respectable man of good habits. Family trouble is assigned as the cause of his suicide. He leaves a wife and several children in reduced circumstances. Justice Keach held an inquest this afternoon, the verdict being in accordance with the above facts.

Merlin E. Hull
(1871? = 17 May 1953)
Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County , Wis. ) Thursday, 21 May 1953; transcribed by Marla Zwakman

Rep. Merlin E. Hull, of Black River Falls , at 82, the nation’s oldest congressman, died Sunday at Lutheran Hospital , La Crosse . He was Wisconsin ’s elder statesman in Congress in point of service.
Hull , a Republican, owned and published the weekly Black River Falls Banner-Journal. He was a member of the House Banking and Currency committee in the current Congress.
Hull was elected to the House in 1928, was defeated two years later, then in 1934 started a string of consecutive terms. During part of that period he served as a Progressive.
Surviving are his wife, Jessie M.; a son, Perry M. of Stockton , Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Marion Lamb, Milwaukee; a sister, Miss Effie Hull, of Washington , D.C.; and two grand children.
Burial was made Wednesday at Oak Grove cemetery, La Crosse.

Will Hutchins
Source: Marshfield Times (Marshfield, Wis.) Friday, May 28, 1886; transcribed by Marla Zwakman

A young man named Will Hutchins, whose parents reside about four miles below Neillsville on the Black River Falls road, was drowned in Black River on Sunday. Hutchins, with a party of friends, was bathing, and he got in deep water.

Ernest A. Johnstad
Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Friday, 11 Feb. 1977; transcribed by Marla Zwakman

BLAIR – Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church in Blair for Ernest A. Johnstad, 58. Mr. Johnstad, who had been vice president and sales manager for Medford Millwork Co., died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday at a motel in Kaukauna. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Friends may call at the Jack Funeral Home, Blair, from 4 p.m. today until ? a.m. Saturday and then at the church an hour before services.
Mr. Johnstad was born in the Town of York, Jackson County, and married the former Josephine Peterson on Jan. 27, 1951, in Blair. He was a member of the Blair City Council and Blair Fire Department. Survivors include his wifel a son, Errol, Blair; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Johnstad, Blair; a sister, Mrs. Ray Solberg, Blair, and three grandchildren.

daughter Lind
Source: Jackson County Journal (Black River Falls Wis.) 24 June 1896; page 5; submitted by Diana Heser Morse

The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lind of this city died of consumption this morning aged five years. The little one had been ailing for some and the dread disease soon caught the thread of life in a firm grasp never relinquishing its hold until it had crushed it out. Funeral services will be held from the house at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Rev. Coram officiating after which the remains will be interred in the city cemetery. The sympathy of the entire community is given the bereaved parents.

William Linnell
The La Crosse Tribune (La Crosse, Wis.) 12 Feb. 1951; submitted by Diana Heser Morse

Black River Falls, Wis. (Special) William Linnell, 76, resident of Black River Falls for many years, died Saturday morning at his home.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Masonic temple with the Rev. Wayne L. Grover, Methodist pastor, in charge. Burial will be at Black River Falls. Linnell is survived by his wife, who is a patient in the Black River Falls hospital, and his family.

Raymond Earl Smithborn
Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Thursday, 19 Nov. 2009; obit abstract submitted by Mara Zwakman

born: 7 Feb. 1940 in Portage, Wis.
parents: Harold Smith & Mabel Bauman
died: 18 Nov. 2009 in Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.
married: 1960 to Barbara Ashley, divorced 1974
married 2nd: Emily Holmgren on 29 July 1978
residence: Hatfield, Jackson County, Wisconsin
occupation: owned bar
children: Robert (Cheri) Smith; Terri Rudolph & Janice (Tony Alliano)
24 grandchildren - 9 great grandchildren
siblings: Arnold Smith; Allen (Lillia) Smith; Doris (Larry Wright) & Jeannie (Michael Bleacher)
Internment in Hatfield Cemetery

Dolores Ann Timm
Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Friday, 13 Nov. 2009; obit abstract submitted by Marla Zwakman

parents: Walter H. Joseph & Elsie H. Prochnow
born: 23 Jan. 1939 Elk Creek, Nebraska
died: 11 Nov. 2009 in Hatfield, Jackson County, Wisconsin
married: 17 Apr. 1960 in Concord to William T. Timm
occupation: bookkeeper & worked at Shopko
children: Cindy (Tim Rupprecht); Laurie (Mark) Klecker & Dan (Pam) Timm, five grandchildren
siblings: Wilbur (Dorothy) Joseph; Gerald (Lorena) Joseph; Lorene (Herb Monlock); Walter (Kathy) Joseph & James (Fay) Joseph

Adam Wozniakowski
Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Saturday, 13 Nov. 1976; transcribed by Marla Zwakman

CITY POINT – Rites were at 10 a.m. today at Martyr’s Catholic Chapel near City Point for Adam Wozniakowski, 83, City Point. He died Wednesday evening at Pine View Nursing Home in Black River Falls. Burial was in the parish cemetery. Mr. Wozniakowski was born in Poland, moving to the United States with his parents at an early age. For 26 years he farmed in the Pittsville-City Point area. Following the sale of his farm eight years ago, he moved to City Point. He resided at the nursing home since August of this year. There are no known survivors.

Ernest L. Zahn
Source: News Tribune (Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash.) 23 Feb. 2006; obit abstract submitted by Marla Zwakman

born: 17 Sept. 1945 in Black River Falls, Wis.
parents: Raymond & Lily Zahn
died: 19 Feb. 2006
spouse: Delores
children: Peter (Rachel) Zahn; Michael (Nancy) Zahn; Paige (John Elingnak); Annette Wheeler & Arlene (Cameron) Reich-Norris

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