----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 6/ /1948

RITES SET FOR MRS. ANNA SPEICH
GREENWOOD RESIDENT DIES OF COMPLICATIONS FRIDAY MORNING

Greenwood--Mrs. Anna Speich, a resident of Greenwood for 43 years, died at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ludwig, Greenwood, Clark County, Friday morning, June 18, 1948 at 10 o'clock. She was 83.

She had made her home with her son-in-law and daughter since about two years ago when she began failing in health. Death was caused by complications due to old age.

The body will be taken to the Zion Reformed Church Monday at 1 p.m. and services will be held there at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. B. M. Fresenborg officiating. Interment will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Stabnow Funeral Home in Greenwood.

Mrs. Speich was born in Switzerland in 1864 and was married there to Abraham Speich in 1884.

In 1885 they came to America and settled in Monroe and ten years later moved to Oshkosh. They came to Greenwood in 1905 and settled on a farm in the north city limits. They left the farm about 30 years ago and moved into Greenwood.

She was a member of the Zion Reformed Church and the Zion Ladies Aid Society.

Surviving are seven sons, Jake, John and George, all of Greenwood, Abe, Ripon Ed, Lima, Ohio Fred, Pittsville and Harry, Mineral Point one daughter, Mrs. Charles (Rose) Ludwig, Greenwood 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Her husband died in 1931. One son and two daughters also preceded her in death. One sister in Switzerland still survives.