Obit: Little, Arnold C. #2 (1907 - 1960)

 

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Surnames: Little, Derham, Schwend

 

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 11/02/1960

 

Little, Arnold C. #2 (26 FEB 1907 - 28 OCT 1960)

 

A.C. Little, prominent Withee (Clark Co., Wis.) businessman and civic leader, died suddenly late Sunday afternoon of a heart attack.

 

He suffered the first attack while seated at home watching television.  Dr. J.W. Johnson was called and ordered him to Victory Memorial Hospital, Stanley, for observation and treatment.  He passed away a short time later while enroute to the hospital in the Owen ambulance.

 

Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at nine o’clock from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home.  The Reverends Cecil Ward and Eugene Carlson, Stanley, who served the Methodist Church at Withee, officiated, after which brethren of the Masonic Lodge, Owen, conducted Masonic rites.  Military honors were paid him by the color guard of the Van Huizen-Fritz American Legion Post of Owen.  Burial was made at Quinnesee, Mich., near Iron Mountain.

 

Serving as pallbearers were Russell Westendorf, Ed Martin, B.C. Cattanach, E.C. Olds, Walter A. Fritz and Roy Segerstrum.

 

Arnold Clayton Little, 53, was born Feb. 26, 1907 in Fond du Lac County, Wis.  On July 4, 1941, he was united in marriage to Alveretta Derham in a ceremony performed at Green Bay.  The couple came to this community about 10 years ago when he assumed the duties of plant manager of the Owen office of the Western Condensing Co.  All in all, until his resignations from the firm two years ago he was associated with them for 21 years, and just prior to resigning to go into business for himself, was supervisor of the firm’s plants in the state.

 

About six years ago he successfully pioneered and developed a firm now known as Badger Valve Rebuilding at Withee, to which he has devoted his full time since leaving Western.

 

At the time of his enexpected death he was serving as a member of the Village Board of Withee, in addition to being an active member of the Owen Masonic and Eastern Star Lodges, the American Legion, as well as the Veterans of Foreign Wars.  His military services was during World War II, when he served overseas for two years in the South Pacific with the Seabees.

 

Indicative of the unexpectedness of his death is evident in the fact that only Friday evening he had returned home from an active 10 day pheasant hunt in Nebraska.

 

Mourning his untimely death are his wife, a son, Donald, 14, and a daughter, JoAnn, 12; his mother, Lola Little, Owen; four brothers, John, St Petersburg, Fla., Roland, Viroqua, Lester, Appleton, and Dean, Green Bay, and a sister, Mrs. Schwend, Waupun.

 

 

 


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