----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 10/ /1955

Kepke, Anna (1879 - 1955)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Mrs. Henry Kepke, 76, a resident of Greenwood for the past 45 years, died Saturday afternoon, Oct. 15, 1955 at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, where she was taken by ambulance Friday, after having suffered a heart attack at he home.

Final rites will be conducted at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the West Side Evangelical and Reformed Church at Greenwood. The Rev. Charles Koch will officiate and burial will be in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Stabnow Funeral Home here beginning Tuesday noon. The body will repose there until Wednesday noon, when it will be taken to the church to lie in state.
The former Anna Fenz was born in Watertown Nov. 8, 1879, and was married there to Mr. Kepke in 1905. For five years after their marriage the couple lived in Watertown and then in 1910 moved to their present farm north of Greenwood. Mr. Kepke died in 1934, and a child died in infancy.

Mrs. Kepke was a member of the Hemlock Aid Society, a neighborhood group.

Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Theodore (Evelyn) Decker, Greenwood two grandsons, Donald Decker, Greenwood, and Bernard, serving with the U.S. Army in Germany a sister, Mrs. Ida Kerstall, Rosendale and a brother, Warren Fenz, Watertown.