Obit: Griffith, Evalyn (1896-1981)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson
Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Griffith, Koch, Williams, Boehm

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (27 October 1981)

Griffith, Evalyn (29 December 1896 - 24 October 1981)

THORP -- Services will be Wednesday in Menasha for a former Thorp resident, Mrs. Harold O. (Evalyn) Griffith, 86, who died Saturday afternoon in a Kaukauna nursing home.

The Rev. David Lewis will conduct the rites at Laemmrich Funeral Home and burial will be in St. Margaret Cemetery, Neenah.

Mrs. Griffith, the former Evalyn Koch, was born December 29, 1896 in Thorp to Mr. and Mrs. Anthony (Mary) Koch. She and Harold O. Griffith were married; he survives.

Mrs. Griffith attended the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menominie, and taught at St. Mary Preparatory School, Prairie du Chien. She then attended Lawrence University-Appleton, earning a degree in 1920. She served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War I and was a member of Catholic Daughters of America, the Neenah-Menasha Woman's Club, the American Association of University Women, St. Patrick's Catholic Church of Menasha and Menasha Historical Society. She also was involved in Girl Scout work.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Donald B. (Rhode) Williams, Wausau, and Mrs. Robert L. (Barbara) Boehm, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; a brother, L. Gerald Koch, Winnetka, Illinois; 13 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

She was predeceased by her parents.