Obit: Elmer, Ervin D. (1889 - 1968)

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Surnames: ELMER OSHAUGNESSY BORKOWSKI DESTER NOON SWIESO FINKLE GESME MUELLER HALL VERLINDA

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 08/ /1968

Elmer, Ervin D. (1889 - 1968)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Ervin David Elmer, 79, Fort Atkinson, a former Greenwood resident, died at 9:45 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, 1968 at the Memorial Hospital in Neillsville.
Mr. Elmer fractured his hip July 21 while visiting with relatives in Greenwood and had been a patient at the Memorial Hospital since that time.

Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood.

Ben F. Harman, pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Marshfield, will officiate, and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

The body will repose at the funeral home from this afternoon (Tuesday) until the time of services.

Mr. Elmer was born April 6, 1889, at Columbus, and in 1902 came with his parents to Greenwood. He lived in Greenwood for about 20 years, then went to Chicago, where he resided until four years ago. Since then he had made his home with his son, Everett in Fort Atkinson.

Survivors are his wife, the former Frances O Shaugnessy four daughters, Mrs. Henry (Beatrice) Borkowski, Chicago Mrs. Louis (Vera) Dester, Anaheim, Calif. Mrs. James (Stella) Noona, Milwaukee and Mrs. Oril (Edna) Swieso, Tacoma Beach, Wash. two sons, Everett, Fort Atkinson and Donald, Greenwood five sisters, Mrs. Ellen Finkle, Hinsdale, Ill. Mrs. Al (Olive) Verlinda, Santa Cruz, Calif. Mrs. Emory (Viola) Gesme, Madison Mrs. Charles (Dorothy) Mueller, Mukwonago Mrs. Albert (Pearl) Hall, Greendale three brothers, Walter, Milwaukee Ernest, Greenwood and Fred, of California 14 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

A brother preceded him in death.