Obit: Wendt, Clara Louise #2 (1889 - 1965)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Wendt, Noah, Gander, Erickson, Olson, Schwarze, Peters, Holman, Egbert

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) July 22, 1965

Wendt, Clara Louise (7 April 1889 - 17 July 1965)

Mrs. Clara Wendt, 76, died early Saturday at Memorial Home in Neillsville, where she was admitted April 1 after fracturing her right hip. She was a former resident of Owen. 

Funeral services were held Tuesday from the Zion United Church in Greenwood. The Rev. Orval Egbert officiated.  Burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Wendt was born April 7, 1889, in the Town of Mead. The former Clara Louise Noah, she married John Wendt April 28, 1909, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Wendt, in the Town of Mead.

They settled on a farm in the town of Longwood now operated by her son, Adolph, where she lived until 1960, when she entered Memorial Home.  Mr. Wendt died March 18, 1953.

She was a member of Zion United Church and its Women’s Guild.

She is survived by two sons, Adolph of Owen and Edgar of Sidney, Mont.; three daughters, Mrs. Adolph (Bertha) Gander of Danville, Ky., Mrs. Burnell (Leona) Erickson of Pardeeville and Mrs. Daniel (Alice) Olson of Greenwood; 28 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Emil Noah of Greenwood and Oscar Noah of Alma; and three sisters, Mrs. Arthur (Bertha) Schwarze of Greenwood, Mrs. Alvina peters of Milwaukee and Mrs. William (Selma) Holman of Port Washington.