Obit: Volk, Anna Barbara (1868 - 1963)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Volk, Galmbacher, Hoesly, O’Neil, Landini, Eggert, Hartung

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) May 30, 1963

Volk, Anna Barbara (13 November 1868 - 26 May 1963)

Mrs. Anna Volk, 94, Greenwood, died Sunday morning at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, where she had been a patient for 21 months.

Mrs. Volk, the former Anna Barbara Galmbacher, daughter of Frank and Barbara Galmbacher, was born November 13, 1868, in Buffalo, N. Y.  When she was a small child she came with her parents to Mishicot.

She was married November 23, 1891, to Jacob Volk in Milwaukee, where she had been employed.  After their marriage the Volks lived for a short time in Marshfield, and in 1892 came to Greenwood, where Mr. Volk operated a tailor shop.

After the death of her husband on February 28, 1912, Mrs. Volk made her home with her daughter, Dorothy, until she was admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital August 7, 1961.

She was a charter member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and its St. Ann’s Society, and was a charter member of Forest Queen Royal Neighbor Camp.

Survivors are: two sons, Floyd of Bellevue, Wash., and Perry J. Volk of Loyal; five granddaughters, Mrs. Irvin Hoesly of Brookfield, Mrs. Edward O’Neil of Madison, Mrs. Ralph Landini of Greenwood, Mrs. Howard Eggert of Tigard, Ore., and Miss Edith Volk of San Francisco; and 11 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday at 9 a.m. from the Hill Funeral Home, and at 10 a.m. from St. Mary’s Catholic Church.  Burial will be made in St. Mary’s Cemetery. The Rev. Edward Hartung will officiate.