Obit: Poole, Charles Marion (1877 - 1963)

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Surnames: Poole, Poff, Tyler, Mauer

                       

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) January 10, 1963

 

Poole, Charles Marion (25 July 1877 - 7 January 1963)

 

Charles Marion Poole, 85, of Neillsville, died Monday in Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient since December 16.  Funeral services will be held this (Thursday) afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Georgas Funeral Home.  The Rev. Lloyd Mauer of the Methodist Church will officiate.  Burial will be made in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

 

Charles Poole was born July 25, 1877, in Sylvan, the son of the late Thomas and Martha (Poff) Poole.  He was married June 18, 1907, to Celia R. Tyler in Neillsville.  He had been engaged in lumbering and farming and later was a painter and paperhanger.

 

He served as a mess sergeant in Company A, 128th Infantry, 32nd Division, in action throughout World War I, and was with this division in the Army of Occupation.  Before the war he was active in the National Guard, and was stationed at San Antonio, Tex., and Two Harbors, Minn., and later was sent with the 32nd Division to Waco, Tex., from which he went overseas.

 

Mr. Poole was a charter member of the Haugen-Richmond Post, No. 73, American Legion, and was its oldest active member.  He was the oldest member of those still remaining of old Company A.  He also was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge, No. 198, and Masonic Lodge, No. 163.

 

He is survived by Mrs. Poole.

 

 


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