Obit: Weddig, Harvey W. (1897 - 1976)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Weddig, Merrill, Critchfield, Meyer, Kenney, Steffen, Jensen, Gullickson, Swanson

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 8/19/1976

Weddig, Harvey W. (9 November 1897 – 14 August 1976) With Flag

Harvey W. Weddig, 78, retired Owen pharmacist, died Saturday morning August 14, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield where he had been hospitalized since June 27. Memorial services were to be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday from the United Church of Christ in Owen with the Rev. Loren Swanson officiating. Cremation was to follow. The body of Mr. Weddig was in state from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Kraut-Maurina Funeral Home in Owen.

Harvey Weddig was born November 9, 1897, in West Bend and moved to Withee in 1907. He graduated from Withee High School and then attended High Park College in Des Moines, Ia., where he received his pharmacy degree. He worked for a short time in Marshalltown, Ia.

His association with the Owen Drug Store began in 1918 when he was a partner with Art and Jim Jensen. Mr. Weddig became sole owner of the store in 1949 and operated it until July 1 of this year when it was sold to Vern Gullickson.

He was married to the former Minnie Merrill on July 26, 1926, in Eau Claire.

Mr. Weddig was active in community affairs. He was a charter member of the Owen Kiwanis Club and was a member of the Owen Businessmen’s Club, the Owen Housing Corporation and of Van Heusen-Fritz American Legion Post No. 123 of Owen. He was a veteran of WWI. A former member of the board of directors of Victory Memorial Hospital, Stanley, he was also a member of F&AM Lodge No. 317, Owen, of Zor Shrine of Madison and the Eau Claire consistory, of the area board for the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, of the Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Assn., and of the National Assn. of Retail Druggists.

Survivors, in addition to his wife, include one daughter, Mrs. Janice Crutchfield of Colombia, S.C.; three brothers, Henry Weddig of Park Falls, Lester Meyer of Phillips and Lawrence Meyer of Hawthorne, Ca.; two sisters, Mrs. Viola Kenney of Cedarburg and Mrs. Irene Stefen of Plymouth; and four grandchildren.

 

 


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