Obit: Woik, Ernest #2 (1885 - 1961)

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Surnames: Woik, Winter, Grosshuesch, Ebeling, Liepke, McLaughlin, Medley, Glenzer, Lipprandt, Fredrick, Buss, Carnahan, Wankosky

----Source: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark Co., Wis.) 09/21/1961

Woik, Ernest (19 Apr. 1885 - 16 Sept. 1961)

Ernest Woik of the town of Green Grove, P.O. address Owen, Route 1, died at the Havenet Nursing Home in Owen Saturday, Sept. 16, at 6:30 P.M., a heart failure being the cause of his death. Funeral services were held Wednesday, Sept. 20, at 2:00 P.M. at the First Evangelical and Reformed church in Colby, Wis., Rev. V. O. Grosshuesch officiating, and burial was made in the Green Grove cemetery.

Mr. Woik was born in the town of Green Grove, Clark county, on April 19, 1885, thus reaching the age of 76 years. He married Iva Winter in Springfield, Ill., on December 25, 1921. After his marriage he cleared and developed a farm in the town of Green Grove on which he lived until 1948 when he moved into a new home in the town of Green Grove, a short distance from his lifetime farm.

At various times, he held the office of town assessor, president of Central Livestock Shipping Association and on the board of directors of the Marathon-Clark Cooperative.

Surviving are his wife; two sons, Ralph Woik of Owen and Robert Woik of Rubicon; two daughters, Mrs. Arlyn (Violet) Ebeling of Wausau and Mrs. Ray (Olga) Liepke of Owen; 10 grand children; three brothers, Anton, Paul and Alvin, all of Owen, R.R.; two sisters, Mrs. John (Olga) McLaughlin of Los Angeles and Mrs. Frank (Hulda) Medley.

Four brothers and two sisters preceded him in death.

----Source: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark Co., Wis.) 09/28/1961

Funeral services for Ernst Woik of the town of Green Grove were held Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 20, at the First Evangelical and Reformed church, Rev. V. O. Grosshuesch officiating, and internment was made in the Green Grove cemetery. Pall bearers were Hubert Glenzer, Oscar Lipprandt, Herb Frederick, Henry Buss, Charles Carnahan and William Wankosky.

Out of town people here for the funeral were from Chicago, Ill., Milwaukee, Abbotsford, Owen, Wausau and Hartford.

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