Obit: Thess, Ida H.A. (1884 –1965)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Thess, Dralla, Danielson, Wordell, Gustafson, Brandt, Gotz, Miller

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 03/18/1965

Thess, Ida H.A. (27 MAR 1884 – 9 MAR 1965)

At two o’clock Saturday afternoon, March 13, funeral services for Mrs. Henry Thess, longtime resident of the town of Green Grove (Clark Co., Wis.), were conducted from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home. Reading the final rites was Rev. Leroy Urman, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church of Withee. Interment was made in the family lot at Riverside Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Lester Kalberg, Arvid Lindgren, Ross Braithwaite, Don Fredericks, Edward Bjorn and Cornelius Driscoll.

The deceased has been in ill health for the past several years and succumbed to complications of old age late Tuesday afternoon, March 9, 1965, at Victory Memorial Hospital, Stanley. She was 80 years, 11 months and 12 days of age.

Born, Ida Helen Augusta Dralla on March 27, 1884 in Iowa, she spent her early life in Calamus Co., Iowa. On March 7, 1906 she was united in marriage to the late Henry Thess in a ceremony performed at Clinton, Ia. Fourteen years later the couple came to Clark County, settling on a farm in the Town of Green Grove on Jan. 7, 1926, where she has since made her home.

Her husband preceded her in death, passing away Oct. 21, 1961. However, she is survived by a sister, Mrs. Caroline Danielson, Dixon, Ia., two brothers, George Dralla, DeWitt, Ia., and Carl Dralla, Calamus, Ia.; two sons, Fred of rural Owen and Herbert of Curtiss; six daughters, Mrs. Lester (Edna) Wordell, Elkhart Lake; Mrs. Hilmer (Alice) Gustafson, rural Owen; Mrs. Joe (Bessie) Brandt, route 1, Withee; Mrs. (Eileen) Gotz, Brookfield, Ill., and Mrs. (Cliff (Louise) Miller, Clarendon Hills, Ill.; 12 grandchildren and 19-great-grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her husband, who died Oct. 21, 1961.