Obit: Schwartz, John "Jack" (1896 - 1958)

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Surnames: Schwartz, Broeren, Sievert

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 08/21/1958

Schwartz, John "Jack" (11 APR 1896 - 18 AUG 1958)

Searchers found the body of John "Jack" Schwartz, 62, at nine o’clock Tuesday morning in a blackberry patch one-half mile south of Wolters Corner on County Trunk O.  He had been the object of an all-night search with county and local authorities being alerted by neighbors when he failed to return home in the evening after having gone berry picking.

He had been making his home at Wolters Corner in the town of Longwood (Clark Co., Wis.), and Aaron Hodnett, a neighbor, said he went berry picking about 7:30 Monday morning.

A bloodhound owned by Sgt. Wally Rudd of the Eau Claire police forces was used early Tuesday morning and when he failed to locate the body, an organized search with more than 25 persons moved through the woods.  The group moved into the wood stationed about the distance between fence posts.  They hadn’t moved 70 feet into the wood from the fence line when John Nielsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nielsen, Withee, came upon his body lying alongside of a windfall.

It was reasoned that he suffered a heart attack shortly after he began picking, as he had two pails trapped to his waist, and only the bottom of one of them was covered with berries.

Sheriff Ray Kutsche directed the search and was aided by Conservation Wardens Art Schroeder and Jim Borusky, Chief of Police Adolph Haavisto and Fire Chief Harry Dempsey, Ed Harycki, Chief of Police at Thorp, neighbors and other volunteers from Owen and Withee.

At 2:00 o’clock Friday afternoon funeral services will be conducted from the Thorp Funeral Home.  Military rites will be held by the Thorp American Legion Post and burial will be made at Riverside Cemetery.

John Schwartz was born April 11, 1896, and for many years made his home on a farm south of Withee and in later years divided his time between Withee and making his home with a sister on the west coast.

Unmarried, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Frank (Elsie) Broeren, Thorp, and Mabel Sievert of the state of Washington.