Obit: Opdycke, Edgar (1889 - 1972)

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Surnames: OPDYCKE STABNOW SHIELDS SCHUMACHER PHILDRICK
 

----Source: MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD / /1972

EDGAR OPDYCKE DIES WAS 83

GREENWOOD--Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Grace United Methodist Church in Greenwood for Edgar T. Opdycke, 83, of Greenwood, Clark County, who died at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Memorial Hospital in Neillsville.

The Rev. Eugen Antrim pastor, will officiate and interment will be in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Visitations may be made at the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood beginning Thursday afternoon, and after 11 a.m. Friday at the Church.

Mr. Opdycke was born May 6, 1889 in Pierson, Iowa, and received his education in schools at Iowa and Nebraska. He was married at Aberdeen, S.D., Nov. 27, 1915, to the former Euloda Stabnow, who survives him. He had moved to Fredrick, S.D., with his parents at the age of 16, and continued to reside there for five years following his marriage. The couple moved to Greenwood in 1920 and retired from farming in 1955.

The Opdyckes were honored on their golden wedding anniversary in November of 1965. He was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, an elderman for a number of years and had served as assessor for the city of Greenwood.

Other survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Harold (Jeanette) Shields, Lake Villa, Ill., and Mrs. Melvin (Fay) Schumacher, Enterprise, Ala. five grandchildren a brother, Percy Opdyck, and a sister, Mrs. Alta Phildrick, both of Lancaster, Calif.
A daughter preceded him in death.