----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection; MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 6/ /1971

MRS. FRIEDA AMPE

Greenwood--Services will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Hill Funeral Home here and at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church here for Mrs. Julius (Frieda) Ampe, 86, of Greenwood, Clark County, who died at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 12, 1971 at the Memorial Home in Neillsville.

The Rev. Mathew Malnar, Independence, will officiate and burial will be made in the St. Mary's Parish Cemetery.

Visitations may be made at the Hill Funeral Home beginning today. A general rosary will be recited there at 8 p.m. today (Monday).

The former Frieda Verhel was born Jan. 16, 1885 in Belgium. She came to the United States in 1900 and settled in Glenwood City, where she was married in 1901, to Julius Ampe, who preceded her in death Sept. 19, 1940.

The couple operated a farm near Glenwood City until 1920 when they came to a farm 4 miles south of Greenwood. She resided there until 1947 when she moved to Greenwood. In 1965 she entered the Memorial Home, Neillsville.

Mrs. Ampe was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, a charter member of its St. Ann's Society, and an honorary member of the American Legion Auxiliary of Greenwood.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Margaret Masson, Sarasota, Fla. Mrs. Kenneth (Alivina) Keach, Viola and Mrs. Mary Jones, Petal, La. fives sons, Albert Ampe, Washington, Kan. Alphonse Ampe, Rudolph Arthur and Theodore Ampe, Neillsville and Raymond Ampe, Marshfield 37 grandchildren and 80 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a sister and two brothers.