BioA: Sheets, Mr. & Mrs. Carl (Gold – 1966)

Contact: Dinah Reinke
Email: dinah@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Sheets, Ystad, Gaehring, Dunow, Olson, Brown, Hecker, Philpolt, Larson, Bennett, Bertz, Turnquist, Felix, Luscher, Attery, Skoglund, Kirschmann, Livingston, Harris, House

------ Source: Tribune-Phonograph (Abbotsford and Colby, Clark Co., Wis.) 07/07/1966

------ Sheets, Mr. & Mrs. Carl (Gold - 05 JUL 1966)

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sheets celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Sunday, July 3, at St. Paul’s Lutheran church, Curtiss, with an open house for their friends and relatives from 2 to 5 p.m. The table was decorated with yellow and white flowers and a four-tiered wedding cake.

The couple had yellow mums and white carnations fashioned into their corsage and boutonniere. The attendants wore identical flowers.

Mr. and Mrs. Sheets were married July 5, 1916, at the Methodist church at Greenwood by the Rev. J. Scott Wilmarth. Attending the couple were Mrs. Sheets’ sister, Mrs. Anthony (Wanda Ystad) Gaehring, and Leland Sheets, the groom’s brother.

Mrs. Sheets, the former Alma Ystad, was born Dec. 28, 1891, at Greenwood. Mr. Sheets was born at Columbus Grove, Ohio, Oct 21, 1889. They farmed in the Greenwood area until 1934 when they moved to a farm near Curtiss. Later they moved to Taylor county and in 1951 they moved to their present home on route 1, Curtiss.

The couple has four sons, Adrian of Villa Grove, Ill., Kenneth of Winona, Minn., Neil of Marshfield, and John of Unity; two daughters, Mrs. Henry (Virginia) Dunow of Owen, and Mrs. Norman (Carol) Olson of Dorchester. There are 25 grand children and 10 great grand children. Telephone calls were received from two grand children who were unable to attend: Mrs. Arley (Betty Jo Sheets) Brown, Thebes, Ill., and Richard Dunow of Kenosha.

Relatives and friends from out-of-town who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Sheets, Bobby and Timmy, Villa Grove, Ill., Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sheets and daughters, Jeni, Jane and Moira, Winona, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Neil Sheets and children, Steven, Lori, Stacy and Kevin of Marshfield, Mr. and Mrs. John Sheets and sons of Unity, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Olson and Kristi, Mike and Nancy Dorchester, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dunow, Owen, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Gaehring and Conrad, Mrs. Julia Hecker, Mrs. Nettie Philpolt, Mrs. Lillian Ystad, Mrs. Oluf Ystad, Mrs. R. E. Larson, Mrs. Otholie Bennett, Mrs. Jerome Bertz, all of Loyal, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ystad, Mr. and Mrs. Art Turnquist, Mrs. John Felix and son, Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Vilas Luscher of Ladysmith, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Attery and Mr. and Mrs. Herb Skoglund, Ronnie and Jane, Milwaukee, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kirschmann, Anoke, Minn., Miss Kay Larson and Jerry Gaehring and children, Eau Claire, Leland Sheets, Neillsville, Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Livingston, Winona, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Arlun Harris, Chippewa Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Henry House, Abbotsford, and many friends from the Curtiss area.
           

 

 


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