----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 07/ /1952

Brick, Mathilda Augusta (1876 - 1952)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Mrs. Fred Brick, 76, a lifelong residnet of this community, died at her home 5 mile southwest of here at 2:45 a.m. Tuesday, July 15, 1952. Death was attributed to a heart ailment.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church, preceded by a 1:30 p.m. service at the Brick home. The Rev. Charles Koch will officiate at the services and burial will be in West Side Cemetery.

The body will lie in state at the Schiller Funeral Home until noon Thursday, when it will be taken to the Brick home.

Mrs. Brick (Mathilda Augusta Schwarze) was born Jan. 28, 1876, in the Town of Warner and received her education in Greenwood. On Nov. 17, 1897, she was married to Fred Brick at Greenwood. He preceded her in death May 27, 1937.

She was a member of the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Ladies Aid Society.

Four sons, Arthur and Alvin, Greenwood Raymond, Chicago and Elmer, Milwaukee, and one daughter, Mrs. Ralph (Irene) Dusso, Loyal, survive her. She is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Sidney Green, Pueblo, Colo. three brothers, George and Otto, Greenwood, and Adolph, Hayward and 12 grandchildren.

Three brothers, one sister, and two sons preceded her in death. They are: Dr. Herman Schwarze, Albert Schwarze, Frederick Schwarze, Mrs. Fred (Helen) Buker, Harold, and Walter.