1

Bio: Musich, Anthony (Service Notes - 1984)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Musich

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 4/19/1984

Musich, Anthony (Service Notes - 1984)

Anthony Musich, son of Alton and Eleanor Musich, Rt. 1 Willard has completed recruit training at the San Diego Naval Training Center. He is now ranked as a Navy Airman recruit.

2

Bio: Ranney, Gary (Service Notes - 1984)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Ranney, Kluckhohn

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 4/19/1984

Ranney, Gary (Service Notes - 1984)

Gary Ranney, son of Marion and Delores Kluckhohn, Rt. 2 Neillsville, has been promoted in the U.S. Air Force to the rank of master sergeant. Master Sgt. Ranney is a 1968 graduate of Neillsville High School, is an in flight refueling technician with the 15th Air Base Wing.

3

Bio: Tyson, James (Service Notes - 1984)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Tyson

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 4/19/1984

Tyson, James (Service Notes - 1984)

James Tyson, son of Roland and Laura Tyson, rural Black River Falls, has been decorated with the U.S. Air Force Commendation Medal at Sheppard AFB, Texas. Senior Airman Tyson, a 1980 graduate of Black River Falls High School, is a food service specialist with the Air Force Regional Hospital. His wife, Jodi, is the daughter of Waler and Carolyn Hensel, Rt. 1 Merrillan.

4

Obit: Daniels, Fred Jacob (1872 - 1948)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Daniels, Pool, Elmhorst, Canfield, Ratsch, Hiles, Smith, Jennings, Green, Bruce, Meyer, McCormick, Reigel, Blum, Peterson, Behringer, Chapman

----Source: Marshfield News-Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., WI) 6/26/1948

Daniels, Fred Jacob (20 July 1872 – 21 June 1948)

Frederick J. Daniels, 75, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, at 6 p.m. Monday. Mr. Daniels was formerly a farmer in the Town of Grant and had lived in this community for over 30 years.

He was born in Kenosha County on July 20, 1872, and when he was 12 his family moved to a farm at Maurice, Iowa. He was married in Sheboygan County, on Feb. 14, 1911, to Grace Pool, having lived in Iowa until he was 37. For four years after his marriage he worked in Sheboygan Falls factories, then he and his family came to Clark County. After spending 28 years on a farm in Town of Grant, the family moved to Neillsville in 1945.

He is survived by his wife, and five children, Mrs. Fred (Christine) Elmhorst, Granton; Mrs. Henry P. (Dorothy) Elmhorst, Neillsville; Mrs. Robert (Elizabeth) Canfield, Granton; S/Sgt Frederick Daniels, U.S. Air Force; and Mrs. Robert (Marie) Ratsch, Neillsville.

One son, Maurice C. Daniels, died in France in 1944 and was buried in the Neillsville City Cemetery on May 28 (this year). A sister, Harriet B. Daniels, Sioux City, Iowa, survives Mr. Daniels. He was preceded in death also by a brother and seven sisters.

Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon at the Georgas Funeral Home at 2 o’clock for Fred J. Daniels. The Rev. L.J. Chapman officiated at the services and interment took place in the Neillsville City Cemetery. The pallbearers were William Hiles, Fred Smith, Fred Elmhorst, Henry Elmhorst, Robert Canfield, and Robert Ratsch.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jennings, Chili sang “When the Curtain is Lifted” and “Rock of Ages,” with Mrs. Esther Green as accompanist.

Those from out of town attending the service were Mr./Mrs. James Bruce and Mr./Mrs. Glen Bruce and daughter, Virginia, of Cedar Grove; S-Sgt Frederick Daniels, Seattle, Wash.; Mr./Mrs. Edward Meyer and son Billie, and Mrs. Clifford McCormick, of Faulkton, S.D.; Byron and Herbert Pool, Plymouth; Henry Reigel and Johanna Blum, Owen; and Fred Smith, Mrs. Ada Smith, Mrs. Swan Peterson and Mrs. J. R. Behringer and sons, George and Donald, all of Owen.

5

Obit: Daniels, S/Sgt Frederick A. (1923 - 1948)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Daniels, Ratsch, Elmhorst, Canfield, Wang, Naedler, Smith, Behringer, Clarity, Lauterbach

----Source: Marshfield News-Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., WI) 8/26/1948

Daniels, S/Sgt Frederick A. (24 June 1923 - 24 August 1948) With Flag

Funeral services were held Saturday evening at 8:00 o’clock at the Georgas Funeral Home for S/Sgt Frederick Daniels, who was killed in Hawaii in a plane crash August 24, 1948, that took the lives of 15 men. The Rev. William Lauterbach officiated at the services. Burial was made on Monday morning in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

Miss Carole Wang sang two selections: “Rock of Ages” and “Nearer My God To Thee,” accompanied by Miss Fern Naedler.

S/Sgt Daniels, who had received his discharge from the army after World War II, in December 1945, re-enlisted May 11, 1948. He has seen action on Leyte, Mindoro, Luzon and other Pacific Islands, and had been awarded the Air Medal for meritorious service in the Pacific from February 13, to July 20, 1945.

In 1946 he was married to Luella Ratsch. She survives him, as does their one-and-a-half year old son, Larry. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Fred Daniels, Neillsville; four sisters Mrs. Robert (Marie) Ratsch, Mrs. Henry (Dorothy) Elmhorst, both of Neillsville; Mrs. Fred (Christine) Elmhorst and Mrs. Robert (Elizabeth) Canfield, both of Granton.

S/Sgt Daniels brother, Maurice, died in France during World War II, and was reburied in Neillsville City Cemetery, May 28, 1948; his father died in June 1948, and S/Sgt Daniels was home for both funerals.

Sgt/ Lawrence J. Clarity of St. Cloud, Minn., was the escort who brought the body to Neillsville. Others who came from away to attend the services were Fred Smith, Mrs. Behringer and sons of Owen.

6

Obit: Daniels, Grace Mae (1885 - 1973)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
 
Surnames: Daniels, Pool, Elmhorst, Canfield, Ratsch, Webster

----Source: Marshfield News-Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., WI) 2/24/1973

Daniels, Grace May (20 December 1885 - 22 February 1973)

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Georgas Funeral Home for Mrs. Grace M. Daniels, 87, of Memorial Home, who died there Wednesday morning. H. E. Webster, Neillsville, will officiate, with burial taking place in the Neillsville City Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home beginning Friday morning.

The former Grace May Pool was born Dec. 20, 1885, at Sheboygan. She was educated there and worked in that area and in Milwaukee. She was married at Sheboygan Feb. 14, 1911, to Fred J. Daniels, who died in 1948. They lived at Sheboygan Falls before moving to a farm in the Town of Grant, Clark County, in 1916. Upon retirement they moved to the city. Mrs. Daniels had been a resident of Memorial Home for the past several years.

Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Frederick (Christine) Elmhorst, Granton; Mrs. Henry (Dorothy) Elmhorst, Neillsville; Mrs. Robert (Elizabeth) Canfield, Granton, and Mrs. Robert (Marie) Ratsch, Neillsville; 30 grandchildren and 68 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death in by two sons, S/Sgt. Maurice (1944) and S/Sgt. Frederick (1948) while serving in the Armed Forces.

7

Obit: Daniels, S/Sgt. Maurice C. #1 (1918 - 2023)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Daniels, Elmhorst, Canfield

----Source: Marshfield News-Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., WI) 1/4/1945

Daniels, S/Sgt. Maurice C. (22 July 1918 – 25 November 1944) With Flag

Granton (Special) -- Among Granton’s gold star heroes of World War II is S/Sgt. Maurice C. Daniels, 26, who died in an Army hospital on Nov. 25, 1944, after having been wounded in France on Nov. 14.

S/Sgt. Daniels, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Daniels, Grant Township, had fought in the Cherbourg campaign during the early part of the Normandy invasion, and was known to have been in the Strasbourg vicinity with the Seventh Army.

A native of Grant township, where he was born on July 22, 1918, he attended the Roder School and later worked in a CCC camp at Perkinstown for two years. Before entering the Army on June 18, 1942, he was engaged in the trucking business at Carpenter, Iowa.

He received training at Camp Pickett, VA.; Camp Blanding, Fla.; Camp Forest, Tenn.; and Camp Phillips, Kan.; as well as desert training in Arizona, and went overseas to England in April 1944. He was last on furlough at home in January 1943.

In the front lines throughout the action in France during the past summer, he was a wearer of the combat infantryman’s badge.

Surviving are his parents, brother, S/Sgt. Frederick, in the Philippines, and four sisters; Mrs. Frederick (Christine) Elmhorst, Granton; Mrs. Henry (Dorothy) Elmhorst, Chili; Mrs. Robert (Elizabeth) Canfield, Granton, and Marie, at home.

8

Obit: Daniels, S/Sgt. Maurice C. #2 (1918 - 2023)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Daniels, Elmhorst, Canfield, Ratsch, Chapman

----Source: Marshfield News-Herald (Marshfield, Wood Co., WI) 5/29/1948

Daniels, S/Sgt. Maurice C. (22 July 1918 – 25 November 1944) With Flag

Final services will be held on Friday, May 28, for Maurice C. Daniels, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Daniels of Neillsville, who died in France. This soldier, a staff sergeant, was wounded in the Normandy campaign on November 14, 1944, and died 11 days later. He was interred in France, and the remains were returned to this country for final interment, being scheduled to reach Neillsville at 4:57 a.m., Thursday May 27. He is one of 5,800 of Wisconsin’s dead in World War Two, who will be brought back to the United States for interment.

The services for Staff Sergeant Daniels will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, at the Georgas Funeral Home. Participating will be the local Service company of the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. Officiating will be the Rev. L.J. Chapman. Interment will be in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

Maurice Corben Daniels was born in the Town of Grant July 22, 1918. He went to local schools and spent his early manhood on the home farm. Later he worked in the CCC camp at Perkinstown, was engaged in the trucking business at Carpenter, Iowa, and finally joined the Army. After intensive training in this country, he went to England in April 1944, and throughout the following summer participated in the front line fighting in France, wearing the combat infantryman’s badge.

The parents of Maurice Daniels formerly resided and Granton and now live at 140 W. 15th Street, Neillsville. Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters, Elizabeth, Mrs. Robert Canfield of R.3, Granton, Christine, Mrs. Fred Elmhorst, R. 1, Granton, Dorothy, Mrs. Henry Elmhorst, R. 4, Neillsville, S/Sgt. Frederick Daniels, who served in the Philippines in the recent war, returned to Neillsville and is now in Army service at Chanute Field, Ill.; Marie, Mrs. Robert Ratsch, Neillsville.

9

Obit: Elmhorst, Dorothy Alice (1913 - 1980)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Elmhorst, Pool, Daniels, McBride, Hineline, Canfield, Ratsch, Aukena

----Source: Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI) 6/16/1980

Elmhorst, Dorothy Alice (8 June 1913 – 14 June 1980)

Neillsville—Dorothy A, Elmhorst, 67, Route 4, died Saturday in a drowning accident near Neillsville.

She was born in Sheboygan Falls, and graduated from Granton High School. She married Henry P. Elmhorst on July 17, 1932, and they farmed in the Granton and Chili areas before moving to the Neillsville, Town of Pine Valley area.

Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Ronald (Rosemary) McBride, Granton, Mrs. Scott (Judith) Hineline, Milwaukee; 9 sons, Eldred, Kansas City, Mo., Henry “Dick”, Rudolph, Roy, Wis. Rapids, and William, Daniel, Michael, Andrew, Paul, James, all of Neillsville; three sisters, Christine Elmhorst, Elizabeth Canfield, both of Granton, Marie Ratsch, Neillsville; 50 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Timothy and two brothers, Frederick A. and Maurice C. Daniels

Rev. Stanley Aukena officiated at services at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Gesche Funeral Home, Neillsville, with burial in Neillsville City Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4 to 9 p.m. today and until services Tuesday.