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MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 5/15/1939

MRS. JOHN ARENDS DIES SUNDAY NIGHT
WIFE OF GREENWOOD S CITY CLERK IS VICTIM OF HEART ATTACK

Greenwood--Mrs. John Arends, 56, wife of Greenwood s City Clerk, died suddenly at 11:30 o'clock Sunday night, May 14, 1939, at her home in Greenwood, Clark County. On Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Arends and the latter s sister, Miss Rue Cummings, had taken the Arends daughter, Miss Theresa Arends, to Eau Claire, where she attends State Teachers College, after spending the weekend with her parents.

About 8:30 o'clock they returned to Greenwood, Mrs. Arends retired as usual. At 11 o'clock she awoke and a doctor was summoned when she complained of illness. She died a half hour later. Death was attributed to a heart attack.

She had been in poor health since Dec. 1937, when she suffered a stroke, but had recovered sufficiently to be up and about.
Mrs. Arends, nee Gladys Mary Cummings, was born April 15, 1883 in Greenwood, where she had lived all her life. She was graduated from Greenwood High School with the class of 1902, and had taught school for eight years.

She was married at Neillsville to John Arends Oct. 12, 1910. Surviving besides her husband are one daughter, Miss Theresa Arends two brothers, Charles, Tomahawk, and Eugene, Glendive, Mont. and two sisters, Mrs. O. C. Behrens and Miss Rue Cummings, both of Greenwood.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed.