----Sources: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.)

WILLIAM PERRINE

Funeral services were held for William Perrine, age 68, on Sep 13, 1978, from the Georgas-Gesche Funeral Home with the Rev. D.E. Sprague, pastor of the Neillsville Assembly of God Church officiating.

Burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery for the retired city police chief.

Pallbearers for Perrine, were David Bertz, Dan Patey, Gerald Wolf, James Wasserberger, Harlan Haunschild and Wade ‘Chuck' Urban, all associated with Perrine in the law enforcement field.

Steve Ware sang The Old Rugged Cross and How Great Thou Art, accompanied by Jan Ware.

Surviving Bill Perrine, are his wife, Edna and two children Patricia (Marvin) Mohr and John (Jayne) Perrine. *

Those attending the services included friends and relatives from the Wisconsin communities of Spencer, Chetek, West Bend, Eau Claire, Pittsville, Marshfield, Nekoosa, Humbird, Rhinelander, Three Lakes, Greenwood, Loyal, Sun Prairie, Granton, Medford, and Merrillan: Chicago and Herrin, IL; and Long Lake, MN.

* The survivor information was not listed in the obituary, so I do not know the number of siblings, or grandchildren. Dolores

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Obit: Perrine, William #2 (1909 - 1978)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Perrine, Tune Korntved, Sprague

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 9/14/1978

Perrine, William (25 September 1909 – 10 September 1978)

The former chief of police for Neillsville, William Perrine, 68, passed away in the Neillsville Memorial Hospital, September 10, after a lingering battle with cancer and circulatory problems.

Perrine, who retired from the chief’s job and the police force in 1974, began his law enforcement work in 1951, working up from officer to chief. During his tenure the department grew into one of the best small community police departments in the area.

Funeral services were held Wednesday from the Georgas-Gesche Funeral Home, Neillsville, with burial in the Neillsville City Cemetery. The Rev. D.E. Sprague officiated.

Perrine was born on September 25, 1909, to Bert and Suda Tune Perrine in Herrin, Ill. After receiving his early education in that community, he attended the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale and then worked in Chicago. Around the time, he married Edna Korntved in a Chicago Ceremony., November 5, (balance cut off, to be on page 2 and I did not have page 2)