----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 03/ /1955

Warnke, Bertha Marie (1881 - 1955)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Mrs. Bertha Warnke, 74, a former Greenwood resident, died at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 15, 1955 at Memorial Hospital, Neillsville, where she had been a patient since last Friday. She had been in ill health for several years.

Mrs. Warnke, nee Marie Engel, was born Jan. 21, 1881 in Lomira, where she received her education. About 50 years ago she was married to Amil W. Warnke, who died in 1932.

The couple lived on a farm one mile southeast of here for several years, then on a farm 4 miles southwest of here until 1917, when they moved to this city, where Mr. Warnke operated a feedmill and warehouse.

The past 1 years Mrs. Warnke made her home with Mrs. Anna Kleckner at Neillsville.

She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church and its Ladies Aid Society.

Mrs. Warnke is survived by two daughters, Mrs. James (Lillie) Hare, Niles, Mich., and Mrs. Paul (Norma) Minsaas, Greenwood a sister, Miss Anna Engel, Glendale, Calif. two brothers, Henry Engel, Stevensville, Mont. and Albert Engel, California, and two grandchildren.

A son, Fred, died in 1937.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Trinity Lutheran Church with the Rev. H.F. Brauer officiating. Burial will take place in the Greenwood Cemetery.

The body will repose at the Hill Funeral Home Thursday afternoon and evening, and at the church from 11:30 a.m. Friday until time of services.