Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 8/23/1940

BAESCHLIN FUNERAL IS HELD WEDNESDAY
GREENWOOD RESIDENT WAS CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL TEACHER IN 90'S

Greenwood--Funeral services were conducted at the Schiller Funeral Home and at Trinity Lutheran Church her Wednesday for Mrs. Mathilda Baeschlin, 71, who died at her home Saturday afternoon, Aug. 17, 1940, after having been ill since last fall. The Rev. George Heilman conducted the rites, and burial took place in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Baeschlin was born Mathilda Louis Fricke, in Newburg, Washington County, on Oct. 31, 1868, and came to the Greenwood vicinity with her parents at the age of 8. Her father homesteaded what is now the Demuth-Rodorf farm on the Twenty six Road.

She attended the Huntzicker District School, now known as the Eaton Center School and graduated from the Neillsville High School with the class of 1890. After teaching for four years at the Forman, Mound, Christofferson, and Eaton Center Schools, she was married in May 1894 to Jacob Baeschlin of the Town of Eaton, who preceded her in death in 1934.

They had rented their farm and had been residents of Greenwood since 1932. Mrs. Baeschlin returned to the farm after her husband's death, but moved to Greenwood again in 1937 and purchased the Christmas residence on Division Street, where she died. She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church.

Surviving children are Mrs. Robert (Dorothy) Slack, Plover John of Columbia, S.D. Neal of Columbia Falls, Mont. Arthur of Worden, Mont. Miss Josephine of Ashland, and Miss Ernestine of Chicago. Another son, Martin, was killed in an accident in Montana in 1919. There are five grandchildren.

Living brothers and sisters are Mrs. Emma Servaty, Fresno, Calif. Mrs. Louis Bauer, Oregon City, Ore. Mrs. Bertha Hansen, Portland, Ore. and William Fricke, Worden, Mont.

Pallbearers at the funeral were Hugo Lenz, Emil Schendel, Herman Damerow, William Rossow, Otto Roehl, and Ed Rohde, and flowers were carried by Mrs. Victor Krokson, Miss Isadore Shields, Miss Evangeline Sheets, and Miss Melva Afkind.