Obit: Sillampa, Gust (1886 - 1961)
Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Sillampa, Pikkila, Nichols, Benning, Winston, Johnson
----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 08/03/1961
Sillampa, Gust (7 FEB 1886 - 30 JUL 1961)
Gust Sillampa, 75, passed away at St. Joseph’s Hospital at Marshfield, where he has been hospitalized a little more than a week, July 30th, 1961. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home, Rev. John English of St. Katherine’s Episcopal Church, Owen, officiated, with burial being made at Riverside Cemetery. Sons and step-sons served as pallbearers, and step-daughters carried the floral offerings.
Born Feb. 7, 1886 in Finland, the deceased came to this country as a young man, settling first in Illinois in 1905. He came to Clark County in 1912, settling on a farm in the Town of Green Grove south of the city, which he farmed and continually improved until his retirement in 1950.
On Feb. 7, 1906 he was united in marriage to Hilma Pikkila, who preceded him in death, passing away Nov. 2, 1951. He remarried in Sept. 1952, exchanging marriage vows with Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, who mourns his passing.
Since his retirement he and his wife have enjoyed the summer months with relatives and friends in this community and then going south to Lake Worth, Fla. for the winter months.
Other survivors are three sons, harry and Toivo, Detroit, Mich., and Carl Owen; three daughters, Mrs. (Irene) Nichols, San Francisco, Calif., Mrs. Ed (Elsa) Benning, Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. Michael (Bertha) Winston, San Francisco, Calif., and 21 grandchildren.
I visited Carl and Bev Sillampa on Tuesday, and got the attached copies of some old photos. The man with the fish is Carl’s father, Gust Sillampa.
Sillampa Family Photo Album
(Click on the picture to enlarge them)
Submitted by Helen Vater Blaha
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The picture of the pole fence and the claves and little boy is the Sillampa farm in the early years, with Gust’s son Harry in the photo. Above right is a photo of the farm somewhat later as it modernized.
To the left is Gust Sillampa with his fish catch. The aerial view above is the Sillampa farm when son Carl was operating it. (The Sillampa farm was in the southeast corner of Section 7 in the Town of Green Grove, on what is now Eddy Road.) Helen Vater Blaha |
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