Obit: Prock, Ottillia #2 (1885 - 1961)

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Surnames: Prock, Crawford, Poppe, Christopherson, Mund

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 03/30/1961

Prock, Ottillia (20 MAY 1885 - 21 MAR 1961)

Final rites for Mrs. Edward Prock, Owen (Clark Co., Wis.), were held Saturday morning, March 24, from the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Owen, with Father H.L. Crubel officiating.  Burial was made at Riverside Cemetery.

Acting as pallbearers were Ernest, Ben, Bill and Roland Schwellenbach, Dave and John Seif.

Mrs. Prock, nee Ottillia Poppe, was born May 20, 1885, in the Town of Seif, Clark county, where she attended school and spent the early years of her life.  In 1910 she was united in marriage to Edward Prock in a ceremony performed at Neillsville.  The couple then settled on a farm in the Town of Weston where they successfully pursued the occupation of farming until moving to Owen in 1937.  At that time they purchased the 19^th Hole Tavern, operating it until their retirement in 1945, when their son, Al Prock, took over the business.

Mrs. Prock’s health had been failing the past two years.  Several weeks ago she fell in her home, sustaining severe fractures of her right hip and left knee.  Since that time she has been hospitalized, first at St. Joseph’s Hospital at Marshfield prior to being transferred closer to home to Victory Memorial Hospital at Stanley, where she passed away March 21, 1961, suffering from complications of old age.  She had attained the age of 75 years.

Her suffering and passing is mourned by her husband Edward; two sons, Kenneth of Rockford, Ill., and Al of Owen; a daughter, Mrs. Lila Crawford, Phoenix, Ariz.; two sisters, Alma Christopherson and Josephine Mund, and a brother, John Poppe, all of Neillsville.