Obit: Wicks, Francis (1901 – 1975)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Wicks, Dix, Boles, King, Moe, Hannawalt, Sook, Buettner

Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, WI) Jan 1975

Wicks, Francis (8 MAY 1901 – 5 JAN 1975)

(Death date taken from Abbotsford Cemetery Listing)

ABBOTSFORD – Francis W. Wicks, 73, Abbotsford, died at 9:50 a.m. Sunday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, where he had been admitted December 31, 1974.

The Rev. Kenneth A. Dix, pastor of the First United Church of Christ at Colby will conduct services at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Polnaszek Funeral Home here. Burial will following in the Abbotsford Cemetery.

Visitations may be made at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Mr. Wicks was born May 8, 1901 at Bristol and lived in Ohio and New Mexico prior to coming to Unity, where he received his education. For the past two years he had resided in Abbotsford. A veteran of World War I, Mr. Wicks was employed in the sheet metal business in Marshfield from 1946 to 1956.

His marriage to the former Ethel Boles took place March 26, 1945 at New Castle, Pa. She survives him.

Other survivors include two sons, Richard, Loveland, Colorado and Randolph, Wausau; A step-son, Andrew Boles, North Carolina; a daughter, Mrs. Lawrence King, Edgar; three brothers, Albert Reedsburg, Wesley, Nevis, Minn., and George, Greeley, Colorado; four sisters, Mrs. Beulah Moe, Kenosha, Mrs. Gladys Hannawalt, Rittman, Ohio, Mrs. Ellen Sook, Marshfield, and Mrs. Leota Buettner, Neillsville; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.