Obit: Welsh, Victoria (? - 1955)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Welsh, Barton, Wesley, Schiller, Rivard, Engeldinger, Grasser, Bergemann, Scherer, Wagner, Leketas, Noonan, Macuilaitis, Petersen, Prock, Reinhard, Skroch, Tibbett  
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) October 20, 1955 
 

Welsh, Victoria (? - 11 October 1955) 
 

A solemn requiem high mass was read Friday morning at 9:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church for Mrs. Victoria Welsh, 72, who died October 11.  The Rev. Fr. Peter J. Leketas was celebrant.  The Rev. James E. Noonan, O. M. I. of Altoona was deacon and the Rev. Joseph Macuilaitis was sub-deacon.  Interment was in the parish cemetery. 
 

The Christian Mother’s Society, the Women’s Relief Corps and the V. F.  W.  Auxiliary attended the service in groups. 
 

Mrs. Welsh is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Bert (Genevieve) Wesley of Cold Water, Mich., and by one son, Francis Welsh of Durand, Wis.; and five grandchildren.  On son Joseph, died in 1935.  She is also survived by two brothers, Albert and Arthur Barton of Neillsville, and one sister, Mrs. Rose Schiller of Neillsville.  One brother, Louis Barton, is deceased. 
 

Pallbearers were: Arne Petersen, Linus Prock, frank Reinhard, Paul Skroch, George Tibbett and Gus Bergemann. 
 

Out of town relatives attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Bert Wesley and family Coldwater, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Francis Welsh and children, Durand; Mr. and Mrs. John Barton, Jamestown, N. D.; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schiller, St. Paul; William T. Schiller, Port Washington; Miss Rhea Rivard, Dr. R. Rivard, Madison; Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Engeldinger, Durand; Miss Mollie Grasser, Marshall; Mr. and Mrs. Gus Bergemann, Granton; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Wagner, Eau Claire; and Mrs. Elizabeth Scherer, La Crosse