Obit: Sorenson, Eunice (1922 - 1980)

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

Surnames: Sorenson, Lahman, Kraus, Trunkel, Lowline, Lesczynski

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 1/17/1980

Sorenson, Eunice (12 April 1922 – 9 January 1980)

Mrs. Glen (Eunice) Sorenson, 58, passed away on the morning of January 9, in Neillsville Memorial Hospital. She had been taken to the hospital from her Greenwood home earlier in the day.

Mrs. Sorenson, the former Eunice Lahman, was born on April 12, 1922, in Marshfield to Mr and Mrs. John Lahman, Sr. She attended Marshfield schools and then lived in Milwaukee, working for Allis Chalmers for eleven years and later being employed as a waitress. On January 18,1967, she married Glen Sorenson in Milwaukee ceremonies. The couple later moved to Thorp and then to Greenwood in 1977.

Survivors include her husband; her father, John Lahman, Sr., Milwaukee, two sons, Douglas Kraus of Waukesha and Gerald Kraus of California, one daughter, Mrs. Duane (Sherry) Trunkel, Willard, a brother John (Jack) Lehman, Milwaukee, one sister, Mrs. Al (Ruth) Lowline, Waukesha; and six grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her mother.

A prayer service was held Friday evening, January 11, at the Rinka Funeral Home in Greenwood. The Rev. James Lesczynski of Holy Family Catholic Church officiated and the deceased’s son, Douglas offered a memorial testimony. The body was to be cremated.