Obit: Berry, William L. #2 (1883 - 1953)

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Surnames: Berry, Schall, Kratochwill, Hanson, Riplinger, Brehm, Nelson 
 

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 06/04/1953 
 

Berry, William L. (11 Feb. 1883 - 30 May 1953)  
 

William L. Berry, 65, died Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in St. Joseph’s hospital, Marshfield.  
 

Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. in the Lulloff Funeral Home, Colby, with the Rev. Harvey Schall officiating. Burial was made in the Colby (Colby, Clark Co. Wis.) Cemetery.  
 

Operator of a meat market at Colby, Mr. Berry retired in 1949 and had been living with his daughter, Mrs. Kenneth (Joyce) Kratochwill, Muscoda. 
 

A native of Ironwood, Mich., he was born Feb. 11, 1883, and moved to Dorchester at an early age. After his marriage to Mabel Hanson, Abbotsford, on May 16, 1908, he opened a meat market in Abbotsford and operated it for 30 years. He moved his business to Colby in 1938.  
 

His wife died Nov. 10, 1949. Surviving him are one son, Warner, Loyal; three daughters, Mrs. Kratchowill, Mrs. Ben (Lenore) Riplinger, Rockford, Ill.; and Mrs. Allen (Birdell) Brehm, Griffith, Ind.; and three grand children. 
 

Two sisters, Mrs. Anna Nelson, Chicago, Ill.; and a brother, Edward, San Diego, Calif., also survive.  

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