Surnames: OPDYCKE STABNOW SHIELDS SCHUMACHER ROSHNAFSKY MENG

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 03/07/1984

Opdycke, Eloda (13 Aug 1889 - 27 FEB 1984)

Eloda Opdycke, 94, died on Monday, Feb. 27, 1984, at Dothan, Ala.

Funeral services were at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 3, 1984, at Grace United Methodist Church, Greenwood. Officiating was Rev. Norbert Miller. Burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery, with Bill Stabnow, Don Wells, Dale Clintsman, Laurence Cox, Lloyd Peterson and Frank Petkovsek serving as pallbearers. Rinka Funeral Home, Greenwood, handled arrangements.

Eloda Stabnow was born on Aug. 13, 1889, at Hecla, S.D. She graduated from Greenwood High School in 1909 and attended Normal School at Reedsburg.

She came to Greenwood with her parents in 1901. She taught school for three years in South Dakota and for two years in the Hemlock Grade School. She lived five years in Frederick, S.D. before coming to Greenwood in 1920.

On Nov. 27, 1915, she and Edgar T. Opdycke were married at Aberdeen, S.D.

She was a member of the Suffragettes, Royal Neighbors, Grace United Methodist Church, St. Luke's UMC, Enterprise, Ala.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Harold (Janet) Shields of Florida, Mrs. Mel (Fay) Schumacher of Alabama, and Mrs. Frank (Janice) Roshnafsky five grandchildren two great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. John (Esther) Meng of Lakeland, Fla.

Preceding her in death were her husband and parents.