Obit: Meyer, Viola Sophia (1909 - 1967)

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Surnames: MEYER BRANDT ABEL NIEMI
 

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook, Marshfield News Herald Collection 11/ /1967
 

Meyer, Viola Sophia (1909 - 1967)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Mrs. Gilbert Meyer, 58, Greenwood, died at 2 a.m. Monday, Nov. 27, 1967 at the Kaukauna Memorial Hospital, where she had been admitted 14 hours prior to her death. She had been hospitalized in Neillsville, Eau Claire, and Madison until 10 days ago, when she went to convalesce at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Abel, at Kaukauna.

Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zion United Church of Christ in Greenwood, with the Rev. David Logue officiating. Burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

The body will repose at the Hill Funeral Home on Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and at the church after 11 a.m. Wednesday.

The former Viola Sophia Brandt was born Oct. 4, 1909, at Withee, and received here education there. Her marriage to Gilbert Meyer took place Aug. 30, 1930, at Withee.

After their marriage, the couple made their home in Greenwood.

Mrs. Meyer was a member of the Zion United Church of Christ at Greenwood, and its Women's Guild.

Survivors are her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Lester (Joyce) Abel, Kaukauna two grandchildren, Mark and Kay Abel two brothers, Joseph and Fred Brandt, Withee and two sisters, Mrs. Emil (Ida) Niemi and Mrs. Martha Meyer, both of Lake Worth, Fla.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and a brother, William.

A memorial fund has been establish in memory of Mrs. Meyer.