Obit: Huntzicker, Fred #2 (1893 – 1948)

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Surnames: Huntzicker, Miller, Nichol

----Source: Scrapbook of Bertha and Caroline (Wehrmann) Volk 1930-1950’s

Huntzicker, Fred #2 (20 NOV 1893 – 09 JAN 1948)

Fred Huntzicker, son of Mrs. Maria (Nichol) Huntzicker of Boulder, Colo., and the late John H. Huntzicker, was born in Greenwood on November 20, 1893 and lived here all his life with the exception of eight years, which were spent in Neillsville. He graduated from the Neillsville High School.

On June 2, 1920 he was united in marriage with Maud Miller at Omro and to this union were born five children, Jane, who teaches in Aberdeen, Wash.; Mary, who teaches in Washturna, Wash.; John, who is employed by the Douglas Aircraft in the research department at Santa Monica, Calif.; Anne, who attends State Teachers College at Stevens Point and William at home.

Mr. Huntzicker, who operated a farm near here, was president of the Wisconsin Cheese Producers Cooperative and Vice President of Land O’ Lakes Creameries, Inc., and one of the outstanding Co-op leaders in the Midwest if not in the nation. He was president of the National Cheese Producers Federation before it changed its identification. He had served as treasurer of the Wisconsin Council of Agriculture and as secretary of the Wisconsin Dairy Industries Association.

In 1941 he was one of six rural leaders honored by the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture for their contribution to agriculture and community life. The citation awarded him by the University said he had been “keen to see that success in farming depends not only upon personal effort but also upon the cooperation with one’s neighbors.”

He was also active in local civic affairs, serving as a director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of this city and of Greenwood Milk Products Co-operative.

He was a member of Green Lodge No. 249, Free and Accepted Masons.

Mr. Huntzicker passed away at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield on Friday, January 9, 1948. He had been a patient there since December 20, 1947.

Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church on Wednesday, January 14, at 2:00 p.m. Rev. Lee Holmes officiated and he was laid to rest in the Greenwood Cemetery.
During the service Mrs. Louis Behrens and Mrs. Herbert Schwarze sang “One Sweetly Solemn Thought” and “Crossing The Bar” accompanied by Mrs. John Meng at the piano.

The pallbearers were A.C. Buker, O.J. Amundson, E.L. Mlada, M.E. Kenyon, W.E. Steiger and Lee Jolivette.

Members of the Eastern Star chapter had charge of the flowers. They were Mmes. Caroline Volk, Blanche Luther, Wm. Olson, C.J. Carter and Harry Liebzeit.