Amelia Decker
 

Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 12/ /1962

Decker, Amelia (1874 - 1962)

GREENWOOD--Funeral services for Mrs. Henry Decker, 88, a lifelong resident of Greenwood, Clark County, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Immanuel United Church of Christ. The Rev. Orval Egbert will officiate and burial will be made in the West Side Cemetery.

Mrs. Decker died of complications at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, 1962, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Calvin Franz, where she had resided for the past eight months.
Friends may call at the Hill Funeral Home until 11 a.m. Tuesday, when the body will be taken to the church.

The former Amelia C. Buker was born May 4, 1874, in the Town of Warner and was married April 18, 1893, in Greenwood to Henry Decker, by the Rev. John Schmalz. The couple operated a farm 3 miles northwest of Greenwood until his death on April 14, 1930. Mrs. Decker remained on the home farm with her son, Arno, until eight months ago, when she came to Greenwood to reside with her daughter, Mrs. Franz. She was member of Immanuel United Church of Chirst and its Women's Guild.

Survivors include three sons, Oscar, Spencer and William and Arno, Greenwood two daughters, Mrs. Harold (Esther) Sievert, Eau Claire, and Mrs. Calvin (Meta) Franz, Greenwood Seven grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

A daughter, Mrs. William (Lydia) Goeke, died in 1953. Three brothers and a sister also preceded her in death.