Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 9/06/1947

SERVICE CONDUCTED FOR ERNEST ELMER
S.D.A. ELDER CONDUCTS RITES FOR GREENWOOD RESIDENT TODAY

Greenwood--Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Stabnow Funeral Home for for Ernest A. Elmer, 80, who died of a stroke Friday, Sept. 2, 1947 at 5:45 p.m. at his home in the City of Greenwood, Clark County. He had suffered the stroke on Aug. 26.

Elder Michael J. Michalenko of Bethel's Seventh Day Adventist Church conducted the rites and burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Ernest Amos Elmer was a charter member of the Equity Shipping Association and helped organize the present shipping association and the oil co-operative in Greenwood. He was a member of the school board when the present Christopherson School was built.

The Greenwood man was born at Columbus Sept. 24, 1866, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Elmer, and received his education in the public schools at Columbus. His marriage to Fredericka Knippel took place at Watertown Sept. 21, 1888.

In 1902 he came to Greenwood from Columbus and settled on an 80-acre tract of land 4 miles northeast of Greenwood. His son, Ernest, owns the farm at present. In 1938 he had retired and moved to the City of Greenwood. The Elmers observed their golden wedding in 1938.

Surviving besides his widow are the following children: Walter, Milwaukee Mrs. Edwin (Ellen) Finkle and Ernest, both of Greenwood George, Neillsville Mrs. Oliva Kasum, Milwaukee Mrs. Emory (Viola) Gesme, Madison Fred, Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Gertrude Braunen, Milwaukee and Mrs. Albert (Pearl) Hall, Greendale. Another son, Roy, died in infancy and four brothers and two sisters also preceded him in death.

There are 32 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.